Re: [Leica] Rabiner Hits the Nail on the head

["Robert Bedwell" <rlb@triad.rr.com>]

Nah......Mark is still kicking and will be around a long time to force us to
look at this Leica stuff more realistically.  He has committed to being a
"lean mean fighting machine" this year.

Bob


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@home.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Rabiner Hits the Nail on the head


> Did I miss something? This sounds like an obit! Where can we send flowers?
>
> John Collier
>
> > From: "Robert Bedwell" <rlb@triad.rr.com>
> > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 04:09:47 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Rabiner Hits the Nail on the head
> >
> > Pitak:
> >
> > Thanks for adding the comments about Mark.  I particularly appreciate
the
> > manner that Mark communicates.  He looks at life through a different set
of
> > glasses.  He takes serious was should be taken serious but injects humor
> > into topics that are not life and death issues....such as the LUG.  When
> > someone has a photographic problem he will be the first to share his
> > experience and provide assistance.  He writes as he speaks which
indicates a
> > person that has a heart.  He is the first one to point out his own
faults
> > which is one indication of a nice and honest person.
> >
> > That's all the nice things that I am going to say about Mark for the
rest of
> > the year....lol.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > P.S.   Thanks for all of your help Mark
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pitak Chenkosol" <pitakc@ee.pdx.edu>
> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Rabiner Hits the Nail on the head
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Bob,
> >>
> >> You are absolutely right about Mark's works. I have seen many of his
> >> works and they are first rated. He is not only a great photographer
> >> but he also a terrific printer. He masters his darkroom techniques.
> >> The man blends some of processing chemicals from basic ingredients.
> >> His darkroom looks more like a chemistry lab than a darkroom :-).
> >>
> >> PC
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Steve:
> >>>
> >>> It is not cool to desire an electronic M.    Please don't use Mark
> > Rabiner
> >>> as a benchmark.....he actually uses his M camera.   I have seen his
work
> > and
> >>> it is first class.  He is a great photographer with an exceptional
eye.
> >>>
> >>> Bob
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
> >>> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 4:33 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Rabiner Hits the Nail on the head
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Mark,
> >>>> I think that in a few words you have summed up how alot of us feel
> > about
> >>> the
> >>>> M.
> >>>> Steve
> >>>> Annapolis
> >>>>
> >>>> ----------
> >>>>> From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
> >>>>> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] automated m camera, again
> >>>>> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2000, 5:00 PM
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And I'm happy with the M camera.
> >>>>> I don't pick it up and shoot with it and think "I wish this or that
> >>> feature were
> >>>>> added to this camera"
> >>>>> The camera in my hands feels like a perfect realization of a long
> > fluid
> >>> design
> >>>>> and use process.
> >>>>> It just has the feeling of perfection in it and I wonder how people
> > could
> >>> own it
> >>>>> and use it to any extent and not feel that.
> >>>>> Mark Rabiner
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Pitak Chenkosol, Dept. Electrical Eng.,|  " I was born not knowing and
> > have
> >> Portland State University,             |    only had a little time to
> > change
> >> P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751. |    that here and there."
> >> E-mail: pitakc@ee.pdx.edu              |                Richard P.
Feynman
> >
>