Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Saint Ex sounds right---also quoted by Yvon Chouinard, designer/manufacturer of some of the most elegant climbing hardware ever made (twenty years on, I still use one of his ice axes with a laminated bamboo shaft, despite getting the Hairy Eyeball from friends in Mountain Rescue, who favor metal shafts). His stuff is a bit more expensive than most hardware, but not quite in Leica's price range; as he once said, "Five bucks seems like a lot for a carabiner---but if I sold it to the yachting crowd, I could get fifteen." Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. > > Not that I take good photographs, what makes me puke with 100% > > reliability is Anne Geddes. I guess some of her stuff is all right, but > > all the stuff of infants in butterfly costumes and such drive me nuts. > > I am always reminded of: "Perfection is not when nothing else can be > > added, but is when nothing [else] can be taken away." Was it Rodin? Why muck > > around with perfect little infants? > > I think it's from The Little Prince by Antoine de St Exupery. One of my > primary design principle (software, photographic, etc.) I aim for. > Hence the appeal of the Leica M to me. > > Cheers, > > - Phong > > > >