Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- 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. >