Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In article <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0402150926090.13467@hedvig.uio.no>, Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> wrote: > > Oh, a Pulitzer qualifies you to write equipment reviews? Weird world ... > In my book? You better believe it. I prefer it if people doing equipment reviews have an idea what they are writing about. Especially I prefer it if people have handled the actual equipment before criticizing it. > Yes, your world is. No, actually I think your worldview is a bit warped. Pulitzer isn't given for technical competence with photographic equipment. I am sure that B. D. Colen did write great stuff to gain his Pulitzer - that's what the price is about, journalistic writing (at least that's what I recall of it being about - if it recently turned into a price given for best photographic equipment review, your are right, of course). But I am as sure about the need to actually handle equipment before making a _qualified_ statement. Withouth knowledge about the real product it's just uninformed guessing and nothing better than other uninformed guessing by windbags without a Pulitzer price. In that case it's irrelevant wether it's B. D. Colen or Hein Bloed who made the guessing. Not that I am against uninformed guessing, mind you (I'm all for gossip of new Leica equipment myself). It's just that I don't see any value of a Pulitzer in that area ... bye, Georg - -- Pinsel oder Tuch? Quatsch. Ab nach http://leicaesk.de/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html