Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Camera of the century? Why!
From: Greg.Chappell@bankofamerica.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:16:38 -0500

Calling any camera "Camera of the Century" is akin to some trying to pick
"Athlete of the Century". 

It'll always only be someone's or some groups' opinion, and nothing more.

We have more things to worry about here.

Greg

- -----Original Message-----
From: Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) [mailto:peterk@lucent.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:53 AM
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: [Leica] Leica Camera of the century? Why!


Eric,

So do we discount all the wonderful pictures taken with other cameras such
as a Rolleiflex TLR(i.e., Marilyn Monroe, Buster Keaton as done by Richard
Avedon), or the photos taken with the Nikon (i.e., JFK, Jr. saluting his dad
at his funeral)?  Granted Leica has been around longer, but it would seem
logical that more photos were generated with Nikon than with Leica in the
last 2-3 decades?  So then why Leica?  

- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@neteze.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:38 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: LUGSeveral topics


Sometime around 1/11/00 11:00 AM, Erwin Puts at imxputs@knoware.nl mumbled
something about:

> BJP's contributor Crawley mentioned that the Leica should be camera
> of the century and I agree with him.

Truer words were never spoken. Leica played no small role in the fact that
photography was the dominant form of communication in this century. Some
word herders may begrudge the power of photos, but as I see it, words and
photos together are more powerful than either alone. But that doesn't deny
the fact that photography is the visual medium of choice in art and
commerce. Only in journalism, ironically, where photography's speical
quality (reporting impartially what the camera sees - note I did not say
what the photographer sees) is one of it's greatest strengths, regardless of
the word folks' attempts to keep it in a secondary, service role to words.
- --

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA 

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

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