Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Is digital photography necrophilia?
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:53:20 -0400
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B. D. Colen wrote:

> The reality, Rolfe, is that other than here and on photo-net,
> Leica-related talk is getting to be rarer and rarer. I'd point out, if I
> may, that those of us discussing digital more and more are people who
> have shot with Leicas, and very often still do shoot with Leicas, but
> have also embraced a new reality, and that reality is now part of our
> photographic lives. You say you had no problem tolerating Tilly hats,
> single malts, etc....and motorcycles, and cars, and pens, and hi-fi
> equipment. Then what's the problem with tolerating discussion of digital
> photography? It's at least relevant to a photography list, while all
> those other topics, which at times have completely dominated the list
> for days at a time, are utterly and complete irrelevant.
> 
> B. D.

B.D.,

I don't think Leica-related talk is getting to be rarer and rarer -- at 
least in recent years it has always been the LUG and photo.net (and its 
precursors).

The problem with the second part of your post is that this isn't a 
general purpose photography list. It is one thing for completely 
off-topic threads such as those about Tilly hats and single malts to 
meander for a few days, and quite another for people to treat a Leica 
list as a place to debate anything and everything photographic 
regardless of the topic's relevance to things Leica. Since digital is 
the latest thing, that is what dominates at the moment, and has for 
weeks and weeks.

This will cause (and arguably already has caused) the LUG to completely 
lose its focus and become a non-resource rather than the valuable one 
that it has been over the years.

Just to be clear, I have nothing against digital per se. When the Leica 
digital back for the R8/R9 arrives, I expect it to be discussed here on 
the LUG -- probably ad nauseum. :-).

Rolfe


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In reply to: Message from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (RE: [Leica] Is digital photography necrophilia?)