[Leica] Walt - all kidding aside

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

First comes the hunt, then comes the kill. After that, the letdown.

Then it starts all over again. It's much like the BIG BANG but with a 
little click.
 
Mark Rabiner wrote:
> It's not the search its the flashlight
>
> I think what this tread is all about is not our affinity to the darkroom.
> But to general photography. The doing of it.
> I say this because over the years I've discovered a thing which tends to
> often be the case in this scenario:
> Most of the people who having spent years with a  photography hobby and
> nothing to show for it from the darkroom and basically nothing to show for
> it at all except "had that, sold it!" stories of gear come and gone...
>
> They oddly don't have any SLIDE PAGES either.
>
> And we don't have to understand the secrets of contrast and Dektol 
> dilutions
> to be able to sort a yellow packet of Kodachrome we get back from the
> drugstore and put them into a plastic page.  Or Ektagraphic tray.
> Plenty of consummate photographers don't have a stack of prints to show 
> you.
> But they do have a stack of slide pages.
>
> If you don't - lets face it - you had time to buy and sell the gear but not
> the slightly inclination to spend ten seconds looking at it.
>
> Now its just a matter of deciding which captures to upload to a pre
> formatted gallery. 
> Many photo geeks can't lower themselves to do that either -
>  they're too busy watching the EBay prices.
>
> What I want to know is this:
> Why cant people just ADMIT IT?
> Why cant they say "I like to buy and sell cameras"
> That's what I like to do!!
> Photography!? No thank you! Cameras yes!
> What's so bad about that? People collect flashlights or cereal boxes they
> don't have to pretend they USE THEM.
>
> Do flashlight collectors join newsgroups of people who search for things?
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
>
>
>
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