Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] do i deserve to own this leica???
From: "Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:46:07 -0400

> This "am I any good?" angst is something we all go through.  Remember
> (Theodore) Sturgeon's Law:  "Ninety percent of everything is crap."
> Even the best pros take a lot more pictures than they publish.  That's
> why there are 36 pictures on a roll.  So don't use *your* ninety percent
> as an excuse to beat up on yourself.

Yeah, but then Jim Brandenburg comes along and publishes all the frames from
exactly three rolls of 36 exposure film (_Chased by the Light_) and ruins
that excuse for all of us.

<Sigh>,
Dan