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Subject: Vs: [Leica] 9 Leicas
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:46:54 +0200

Well put, Adrian! But I still can´t help being envious... but not for the cameras.
All the best!
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Lähettäjä: apbbeijing <apbbeijing@yahoo.com>
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Päivä: 10. elokuuta 2000 4:42
Aihe: Re: [Leica] 9 Leicas


>on 9/8/00 10:04 PM, Miro Jurcevic at miroj@ozemail.com.au wrote:
>
>> Use poorer members of the LUG can only drool at the idea of 9 M's. That's
>> more than any dealer normally has in our neck of the woods.
>
>
>Miro, 
>
>What makes you think I am any richer than you? You know nothing about my
>financial circumstances other than the number of cameras I use. Perhaps you
>get jealous of the guy at the garage for his having a set of tools you might
>only dream of? Or the truck driver with that huge vehicle, so much bigger
>than what you get to work in...
>
>My cameras are the tools I use for my work. I use them because they work and
>because I like them and because I know they accomplish what I set out to do
>with them. I do not have the option of rental or of going out to buy a
>replacement when I need it since that involves too much time and expense.
>
>When I started out in China I had a suitcase and a couple of Nikons that I
>had bought second hand, paid for with money I had earned from selling my
>photographs. I also had nowhere to live in this totalitarian state. Many
>years of hard work, hard travel you can barely imagine and a passion to
>create ever better images has led me to the situation where I have acquired
>9 Ms. I am sure I spent less on these than the majority of LUGGERs spent on
>their car(s). I am not a collector and every camera has to pay for itself or
>it is on the block. My film costs BTW dwarf my equipment costs and always
>have. Maybe instead of drooling you should take some photos that are worth
>the attention and $s of others and you too could have what you want to make
>the photos you dream of with the best tools on the market.
>
>I have no idea what you do for a living but I can assure you that the vast
>majority of photographers make far less than most other professionals,
>including plumbers, truck drivers and garage mechanics so don't assume a guy
>with a set of tools is loaded. It is cheaper for me to have 9 Leicas than 1.
>
>The funny thing is that to start out as a professional photographer does not
>involve a large initial outlay: if you have a $200 camera and a $60 flash it
>can be very clear very quickly whether you have what it takes to make a
>living. To be able to do a wider variety of work and grow creatively most
>(but not all) photographers choose to use more equipment to realise their
>vision. The vast majority of my clients do not specify even what format they
>want for the jobs they give me: they explain their demands and expect me to
>do what I feel is best. If my preferred way of working was to shoot with a
>Holga and make digital prints then so be it. It better be good or I don't
>get any more work. There are photographers who do very very well using such
>equipment and others who do miserable trash and fail to make a living with
>hundreds of thousands of dollars of fancy Swiss cameras and lighting
>systems.
>
>Oh and how many Leicas do you suppose the dealers have in stock in my neck
>of the woods?
>
>Bests
>
>Adrian
>
>
>-- 
>Adrian Bradshaw
>Corporate and Editorial Photography
>Beijing, China
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>
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>
>
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