Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/06

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Subject: [Leica] Help Doug--A Reality Check
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Tue Feb 6 11:55:47 2007
References: <586542.55384.qm@web25515.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>, <002201c749de$003f3c20$6501a8c0@asus930>, <001801c749ee$c1740a00$445c1e00$@net>
 
Quoth the Jim Shulman :

> Here's the reality check: Let's begin with the same number of people
> (86) respond as sent pictures for the LUG book.  Cut that number to a
> third (30), since this project isn't free and doesn't produce a coffee
> table book (yes, we loved seeing ourselves in print.)

Yes, but that's a pure and simple vanity proposition - the 
quintessential luxury good.

Some of us don't have money for that...  but a friend in dire straits 
is something alltogether different.

Screw reality.  If we weren't idealists, we wouldn't still be 
shooting film M's.

--


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