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Subject: [Leica] DVD: Henri Cartier-Bresson. NOW AN ANSWER FOR LLUIS! r
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:32:09 +0530
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Luis,
I think, by and large, they have already forgotten you. That NYT article is
a very clear indicator of that. Not a single photographer mentioned,
comparisons to Rolex, etc.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Lluis Ripoll
<lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>wrote:

> I hope Leica don't forget real photographers, after see 3 pages of this
> nice blog I was tired to only see cameras, stores, pretty girls.... Leica
> is for me and I think for all the members of this list an excellent
> instrument to do pictures, celebrities... "?what we call in Spain
> "Beautiful people" is a wrong way I think, in our days of international
> recession ... such concepts are "offensive" for me... another way to show
> snobbism!
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> El 15/01/2013, a las 02:19, Philip Leeson escribi?:
>
> > Maybe if you looked like Ali Larter, they'd send you one:
> >
> > <
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/fashion/leica-cameras-favored-by-celebrities.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
> >
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > On Jan 13, 2013, at 7:28 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
> >
> >> Lluis Ripoll OFFERED:
> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] FS: DVD: Henri Cartier-Bresson The Impassioned
> Eye(2003), een film van Heinz Butler
> >>
> >>
> >> "Dear Ted, buenos dias querido amigo!
> >> Has Leica any rough idea about your 380,000 images 99,99% with a Leica?
> >> I hope Leica gives you an special edition Leica MM "Dr. Ted Grant" and
> you come with it to Barcelona to the big meeting!<<<<<<<
> >>
> >> Dear Lluis, buenos dias querido amigo!
> >> No Luis, Leica don't do that for unknown photographers to them.
> Although they surely know who I am been there a few times while on
> assignments in Europe! Nor regardless of how many photographs your
> government's National Archives' and National Art Gallery have in their
> photographic collections. Even the largest in the history of your country?
> Or books you've had published and acclaimed by many many reviewers and
> subjects as the subject of the books.
> >>
> >> Nor my years of lecturing to professional photographer associations,
> schools and camera clubs all over the country. And at each, espousing the
> greatness of the Leica camera never ended simply because that's the
> equipment that allowed me to become the very fortunate lucky
> photojournalist I am!
> >>
> >> Even when you are the Lead Speaker for 16 years in Cape Cod for the
> Leica International Seminar! Where my lectures drew such demand each year
> until people had to be turned away because there wasn't teaching room for
> more than a 90 bodies.
> >>
> >> Oh they do give them to German's, American's, sport heros, Hip Hop so
> called singers! And free cameras to movie stars because they're movie 
> stars!
> >>
> >> Give them to trust worthy hard working published international
> photographers for over half a century because the camera is the best tool
> on the market in carrying out thousands of assignments for many
> publications or books? Nope!
> >>
> >> Got a used slide projector one time when Leica closed the LEICA CANADA
> opertion in Toronto. But only because one of the senior people told the
> staff person I had a projector on loan and it should be returned! It was
> already a loaner that had the hell beat out of it shipped all over the
> country as a sample.
> >>
> >> But the VIP was convinced they should let me keep it as I was such a
> loyal and trustworthy Leica user. Besides it was really in junk condition
> and they'd only scrap it if I returned it! So that was my one big free
> reward after 60 years of "ALWAYS BUYING ALL MY LEICA GEAR!"
> >>
> >> A free MM???? Whatever you do, do not hold your breathe my friend it
> ain't going to happen!!
> >> cheers,
> >> Dr. ted
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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