Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On May 11, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > In my view off topic discussions in the LUG general threads, especially > emotive ones, are divisive and distracting from talking about photography > in general and Leica in particular. This is a broad and international > church. > Brian provides a separate forum for those discussions and anyone is welcome > to join. > I'll leave it at that but you're welcome to email me off list if you wish. I see some fine, overlapping issues being discussed. Leica built its reputation on fine documentary photography. Leicas dropped out of favor with professional, documentarians for a time. Documentary photography, almost by definition, involves emotive subjects. Our young, aspiring, photo-documentarians are expressing (documenting) their real-life experiences; including the lack of jobs in journalism and media; the usefulness of higher education in the arts; and how these issues relate to new technology and gear releases. While the subject heading may be stretched (I don't think it's snapped yet) I find the expanded "subject" far more compelling than the MTF charts (which are impressive - too). Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist