Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] photography today is GARBAGE
From: enitka1 at comcast.net (ernie nitka)
Date: Wed Jul 13 09:45:20 2005
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George - I'm sorry to tell you that your grandkids will NOT use your Leicas 
when you're pushing up daisies.  They will sell them on eBay and buy crack 
cocaine and take nudie pictures with digital point and shoot cameras.  So 
my advice NOW is to get rid of the cameras that you own before they fall 
into the hands of your miscreant grand kids.

just my opinion - i'm likely wrong but I LOVE to speculate

ernie

At 10:08 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote:
>All I look at and all I see today is these kids with their wizbangs who 
>don't understand CRAP about emulsions or how to mix up a batch of hypo and 
>all their photos are CRAP pictures of idiots on skateboards and young 
>women (??????) with metal things in their faces, this isn't photography, 
>it's GARBAGE. These people should be in JAIL. I have to ask: WHERE ARE 
>THEIR PARENTS? If my daughters had ever come home looking like that, my 
>wife and I would have taken care of it QUICK. The great photographers, 
>Seieglitz, Eisendstaedt, Cartier-Bresson, Lewis Hine, Smith (who was GENE 
>to me), wouldn't tolerate this, so why are we? These people don't 
>understand anything about capturing the MOMENT, all they care about is 
>where they're going to get their next DRUG HIGH. EOS stands for BRAIN 
>DEAD, and NIKON stands for CRAP. The F was a good camera and then they 
>were FINISHED.
>
>I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the camera i use, LEICA, 
>makes me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I compose them in 
>my mind, and capture them on film, and then I develop this film and PRINT 
>it in my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains have been destroyed by auto-idiot 
>cameras and they don't understand anything. Which is why their 
>"photographs" are so bad. The so called "digital" is not photography. 
>PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE CREATION OF AN IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will 
>last for another one-hundred years, and if I am not around to use them, 
>then my grandchildren will use them and they will be just as capable as 
>producing PHOTOGRAPHS then as they are now.
>
>I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone to say this.
>
>George
>
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