Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow, you guys can certainly whinge. Save the bandwidth. If this bothers you all so much, why not just go and do your own thing. As Ted said, it ain't rocket science. This was a project initiated within the LUG to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the original FOM. LUG idea, LUG project, LUG content, LUG rules. If commemorating the 50th anniversary of the original FOM means so much to you all, why didn't you do it. Now that someone has, and wants to keep it within the camera community that he is in, and keep it to a manageable size, you and others have decided it is a good idea and want to be part of it. Well, that's tough. I look forward to your FOM3, open to the world, using any camera and lens, with 50,000 entries per year from which the committee chooses 100. That should keep the judges fully occupied - 1000 images a week to review, or 1 image every ten minutes. Good luck. Simon On 3/7/02 10:16 pm, "Allan Wafkowski" <allan@sohogurus.net> wrote: > Geez, Pablo, we really are soul brothers! > > I agree with all the points you've made quite eloquently. There are > younger people, or people less well acquainted with the literature who > do not know of the original FOM and what it means. It was an important > work then, and there are even more reasons for it to live on in its > original spirit today. It's sad to think one can't become a part of the > FOM2 because he or she doesn't have the right camera. > > Allan > > > Pablo Kolodny wrote: >> >> Allan, >> >> Finally I'm pleased to agree with you at all. 100%. >> Good point. >> >> Hope FoM2 founder/s can review all that to free us all and get pictures >> with >> whatever the camera is. At last a project concerning such ambitious >> thing >> like THE Family of Man would have include human beings not camera >> brands. >> Now, if our beloved Solms guy would like to gladly and freely "sponsor" >> the >> project we could promise them to add the red dot somewhere. >> >> And, finally, if the project would open to a wider camera brands, or as >> you >> suggest, to be kept only to LUG members I'd welcome thousands of images. >> Probability to achieve better images would be found easier. >> I agree with some other who talked about many many images under an >> average >> quality. Then if we're intended to give the best of us we should permit >> more >> people to come in the project and so on. >> Otherwise the FoM2 project would going more on the way of a sort a >> humble >> PAW and not closer to what once used to be the original Family of Man. >> >> IMHO. >> >> Pablo - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html