Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: our obligation to pinholeday.org
From: "Joe Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:13:46 -0700
References: <4.1.20010409074121.01efe520@xsj02.sjs.agilent.com>

From: "Jim Brick" <jim_brick@agilent.com>
> The problem with pinhole photography, other than the fact that it produces
> pinhole photographs, is that someone might see your pinhole photograph and
> see your name with it as well. You will forever more be branded as a
> pinhead. Your business will fail, your banks will call in their loans,
your
> car will quit, your dog will leave, I won't mention anything about your
> wife or girlfriend. A lifetime of misery will set in. All because you
> displayed a pinhole photograph with your name on it.
> Jim


Damn Jim, you sure can deflate a baloon, just when I was beginning to warm
up to the idea of pin holes.
On a more serious -but not necessarily reverent - note, I fail to see why
people who buy the highest quality (and expensive) cameras and lenses in the
world are driven to produce the most mediocre photographs.
I am an enthusiastic experimenter but I will pass on Daguerrotype,
smear-on-the-emulsion-in-the-field glass plates, and aah... pinholes.

Joe

Replies: Reply from "Jason Hall" <JASON@jbhall.freeserve.co.uk> (Re: [Leica] Re: our obligation to pinholeday.org)
In reply to: Message from Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com> ([Leica] Re: our obligation to pinholeday.org)