Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Snapshots vs 'art'
From: "Phong" <phongdoan@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:54:33 -0400

Not really a contradiction here.  While most people
appreciate technical excellence in a photograph, what 
they cherish and miss is images of loved ones, regardless 
of who pushed the shutter.  In the pusuit of technical
excellence, we photographers often forget what is truly
important.

The irony for me is that the Leica M, for all its superb 
optics, is really about taking the "snapshot", i.e. 
capturing the moment, the fleeting smile of a child, 
the twinkle in a girl's eyes.  I use the best lenses 
because I have been fortunate enough to afford them
among other reasons.  In less affluent circumstances, 
I would just be as happy using the Cosina-Voigtlander 
(double check spelling for MJS's sake :0), or the Jupiters.

- - Phong
 
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Steve
Barbour

yes absolutely Rich...yet at the same time, people trivialize photos, and
take them for granted, often  assuming that everyone can be a
"photographer"....Steve

> Hi Clive,
>
>      Photos are one of things people value most.  In a fire, it's what
they
> try to save first and miss most.  And it seems the further removed by
> time, the greater the value.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rich Lahrson
> Berkeley, California
> tripspud@transbay.net
>


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