Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark: So what you're saying is that "size matters?" Just like all those emails I have to delete every morning? :-) I can see the ad campaign now. A picture of a battered Leica M7 on the floor, a huge crack across the face of its once-proud 35/1.4 Summilux ASPH. Above it, on a huge tripod, an 8x10 view camera looms, flexing its bellows in triumph. Caption: "When you're ready for a REAL camera, try Calumet." - --Peter Mark Rabiner wrote: > 7. People will gladly strip naked for you at the spur of the moment on > the corner of Broadway and 1st avenue during rush hour if you point an > 8x10 view camera at them and climb behind it. > No so with rollfilm and lessor sheet film. This has been proven. An 8x10 > view camera commands a respect other cameras are not in the league of. > This makes photo subjects act differently and the people watching the > shoot act differently and the recipient of the print act differently. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html