Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Exhibit on line + Expensive Leicas
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 12:07:06 -0800

Tina Manley wrote:
><Snip> 
> The guy who put together that exhibit for PhotoHighway also wrote an
> editorial on Black and White World about changing the world with a camera
> <http://www.photogs.com/bwworld/ramble0200.html >  He says that he had had
> comments along the lines of "oh, how ironic, there she is with photo
> equipment that's worth more than what her subjects will make in a
> lifetime."   I worry sometimes about that, but the photos are used to raise
> for the NGO's many times what the equipment costs and I couldn't make the
> photos without Leicas!  I knew LUGnuts would understand even if others don't.
><Snip> 

Shoot the rich with rich cameras and the poor with poor cameras!!!!?
This formula should of course be reversed! If anything!
Bill Gates needs to be shot next time with a Diana of course. There's bound to
be something to be said for that. We'll have to ask Erwin.
Mark Rabiner
Great work Tina!!!!!!!!!