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Subject: [Leica] Final Sobol Photos with MM Part II the beginning
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:28:11 -0400

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us8egbeZil0

Give this video a minute it evens out:
We see here the photographer Jacob Au Sobol standing next to Dr. Andreas
Kaufmann at the podium taken with a shaky video camera. Big screen behind
them. Both guys in tee shirts and needing shaves.

We learn that the previous video we just all saw of him on the LUG was the:
1. First time Jacob Au Sobol ever used a digital camera
2. First time he ever used a Leica camera.

I'm at the point now where he is reunited with the Monochrom M at the podium
as Dr. Andreas Kaufmann hands it too him. I'm not sure but it really seemed
like an emotional moment.

There are lots of other videos about this guy, Jacob Au Sobol on you tube.
I've been learning a lot watching them.

I think if you Googled and wiki'd and Binged Jacob Au Sobol the only place
you're ever going to find anything negative writing about him is on an email
list called the Leica Users group.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: "B. D. Colen" <bd at bdcolenphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:10:48 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Final Sobol Photos with MM
> 
> No, unfortunately it did not show you what the camera could do. You have
> far less than no idea how what you saw on the screen relates to what comes
> out of the camera.
> 
> On 6/15/12 1:31 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> I was annoyed about the MM before preferring that Leica had spent that R&D
>> on updating the sensor in full color M9 and getting that camera out. Its
>> been three years.
>> But this video got me into the idea of working in pure black and white
>> again. With my Leica glass. I was inspired by his working method and
>> inspired by his end result.
>> I showed nothing about the camera?
>> It showed what the camera could do.
>> It didn't teach you how to load an SD card or change lenses.
>> I think the purpose of the video was to sell cameras.
>> And I think it'd doing that. If I had the money I would fro sure by an M
>> Monochrom and get my Leica glass going again. Possibly in the best way
>> possible.
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.
>> Mark Rabiner
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:49:43 -0500
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Final Sobol Photos with MM
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 14, 2012, at 7:39 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Did anybody watch this:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://blog.leica-camera.com/photography/m-system/arrivals-and-departure
>>>> s-wit
>>>> 
>>>> h-jacob-aue-sobol-episode-6-the-final-episode/?utm_source=feedburner&utm
>>>> _medi
>>>> um=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeicaCamera+%28Leica+Camera+Blog%29
>>>> 
>>>> What did you think?
>>> 
>>> Delighted to have been introduced to this photographer / artist
>>> Thank you Tina.
>>> 
>>> Love the unexpected qualities of his photographs
>>> (and his love for black and white image making)
>>> 
>>> The film is not "about the camera."
>>> The film is about "Sobol."
>>> and
>>> intriguing enough (to me) to spend some time with his work.
>>> 
>>> Leica's saying, "this is an artist's camera."
>>> I believe them.
>>> Though of course non-artists will also buy them.
>>> and some artists will buy them and not like them.
>>> and many (color) artists will not buy one.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> George Lottermoser
>>> george at imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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