Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a very good idea, but requires enormous organization. I've "giving" some of my unused digital equipment to a local project here in Melbourne. Only learnt of it 2 days ago, and you are right in thinking the equipment should be "used". A few years back I missed the chance to donate my Minoltas to a project in Africa. They were giving cameras to the local rangers. The images were supplementing their incomes and helping them to work on protecting the elephants. By the time I got around to contacting them the project was over. They are still "available", but no-one seems interested in "film", and who can blame them ;-) > In August of 2009 I realized I had an extra 85mm f 1.8 - it's one of those > lenses you replace with the AF version and can't sell the old one for > enough to justify selling it because, HEY, it's still a really nice lens > but there's no way you're ever going to use it again. It crossed my mind > that I ought to give it away to someone who would use it. > > So I made this blog post: > > http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/444606.html > > which is how I met Javier Odriozola whose proposed project was to "drive > around Uruguay and photograph the small villages" - which is about as > awesome an idea for a project as I could imagine, so I shipped him the > lens. And Javier drove through Uruguay photographing the small villages > and he's got back and put together a collection of his photos which you > can browse here: > > http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1201949 > > And Javier's had an adventure, I feel like I helped the world wake up a > tiny bit better than she went to bed, and we all have photos to look at > that didn't exist before... It is, as they say a "win win". > > WHICH BRINGS ME TO A PROPOSITION ... > > We probably all remember a time when we had more ideas than equipment and > I doubt there's a person on this list now who has some equipment they > don't use - whether it's an AE-1, or a wireless trigger, or a box of > assorted Hoya filters or a Polaroid back, or an enlarger. I propose that > the LUG come up with an organized collection of micro-scholarships where > we identify a) our excess equipment and b) people who have more ideas than > equipment and DO something that produces a positive, quantifiable result - > this might be that a certain number of images must be produced with the > equipment and uploaded to the LUG gallery or that a larger project be > undertaken. > > Thoughts? Ideas? Takers? > > Kyle > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >