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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Leica Camera of the century? Why!
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:03:33 +0100

Because Leica started it all. Canon AE-1? Hah - without Leica the 35 photography would not exist. Like B.D. pointed out, Leica was the forefather - without father, no sons/daughters. 
All the best!
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Lähettäjä: Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) <peterk@lucent.com>
Vastaanottaja: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Päivä: 12. tammikuuta 2000 18:11
Aihe: [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
>
>The difficulty now is that unexceptional adults believe the loss of youthful
>dreaming is itself  growing up,  as though adulthood were the passive
>conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during adolescence. 
>