[Leica] Re: Ad hominum attacks

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Nov 25, 2006, at 6:30 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

>>>> hi David, some superb photographers (their work is very well known
>>>> here and long time M shooters they are)...have been more than
>>> favorable about the M8. More, they have been explicit and detailed
>>>> about their M8 experience...


Enough of these ad hominum attacks on David.  Good photographers have  
learned to rise above the inadequacies of their equipment. I suspect  
that Ted and Tina would make prize winning photographs with Holgas.  
Therefore their judgments on equipment should count LESS than those  
of less talented mortals. We have been told to learn to accommodate  
the flawed WB of the M8, ignore blobbing and banding, and artfully  
arrange the subject matter to minimized the dreaded magenta cast. If  
we don't know enough to do this, we don't deserve the M8. But for  
those of us that depend on our equipment to compensate for our  
photographic inadequacies, the anti M8 sniping in the LUG provides a  
valuable caution. Wait for the M9, or at least the M8.1.

Larry Z