Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Richard. Kojiki, Nihon-syoki (Nihongo means "Japanese"), oh wow you know so much about our literatures. Anyway, it is not that easy to assume how many generations my family has been in Japan because... Japanese race is said to be one mixture of different people ended up here in different historical and pre-historical periods. Let me make it easier to relate, how many of Americans we see at this list are the descendents of Mayflower passengers? (ya, I've read Michael Moore few weeks ago) :) I cannot say how long my family has been around because I have no idea whether I am a descendant of Indonesian explorers who boldly went where no one had ever gone before, and built the first villeges in this country, or a naturalized Chinese merchant who came few hundred years ago and fell in love with a local woman and practically abondoned everything for his new life with her in Japan. I've just made that up, but... - wow - that must be cool... Less information can mean more freedom for imagination. That I think is the advantage of potography over movies, monochrome over color, and RF's over SLR's (ummm, i am not sure...) That is why I still load a roll of Tri-X into my Leica today, and we are now back to the subject. ;) Happy shooting! - -- Tom Kumagai http://www.kumasite.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html