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Subject: Re: [Leica] DR. BLACKTAPE WOULD LIKE TO RAISE AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS QUESTION REGARDING ERWIN PUTTS' "REVIEW OF THE NEW M7...
From: "SonC (Sonny Carter)" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:45:14 -0600
References: <NEBBJNBPGLHAFCPKNNFLAEMFCHAA.photo@communitymma.se>

Johan,
I guess this is not the forum for you, then.  That was mild! . ... and
it did not appear to be an attack, more an opinion.

Regards,
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com



- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Ericson" <photo@communitymma.se>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] DR. BLACKTAPE WOULD LIKE TO RAISE AN EXTREMELY
SERIOUS QUESTION REGARDING ERWIN PUTTS' "REVIEW OF THE NEW M7...


> Who is You DR. BLACKTAPE???
> I'm new on the list and I find this sort of "attack"
> disturbing and revealing a lack of common sense. If
> this is the way "Leica users" are discussing matters,
> this is not the forum for me!
>
> Johan Ericson
> -----------------------------
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> johan.ericson@communitymma.se
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> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]För B. D. Colen
> Skickat: den 24 februari 2002 19:04
> Till: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Ämne: [Leica] DR. BLACKTAPE WOULD LIKE TO RAISE AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS
> QUESTION REGARDING ERWIN PUTTS' "REVIEW OF THE NEW M7...
>
>
> ...AND OF ALL OTHER THINGS LEICA.
>
> Erwin Putts gets an M7 ONE YEAR ahead of release - when Leica is
denying
> that there will ever BE an M7. He gets extensive tours of the
factory prior
> to release, so that he can describe in worshipful prose the ancient
sewing
> machines, manned by the skilled Portuguese seamstress sewing the
shutter
> curtain.
>
> Are we really expected to continue to believe that Erwin and his
reports are
> what any neutral observer would call "independent" of Leica and
truly
> objective?  We would suggest that we should judge his reports just
as we
> judge Leica's advertising materials, press releases, and the
endorsements
> from photographers to whom it gives free cameras.
>
>
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