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Subject: [Leica] Peter Lik's Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. - NYTimes.com
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:35:39 -0800
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Ha ha.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Of course, this reminds me of the famous black cat thread, in which I
> battled many of the LUG who tried to convince me that it was impossible for
> me to meter and photograph my cat with my M6 successfully.    ;-)
>
> from my iPad
>
> Sonny Carter
>
> > On Feb 22, 2015, at 6:14 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the sixties, when I was covering the marches, I wished my Spectra
> incident meter would have had a brown hemisphere instead of white.
> >
> > from my iPad
> >
> > Sonny Carter
> >
> >> On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I did notice it was the lead story in the business section, as opposed
> to art and leisure.  And then if you go to the photography section in the
> magazine ("A True Picture of Black Skin"), you will learn that "cameras and
> the mechanical tools of photography have rarely made it easy to photograph
> black skin".   But, one can work around these unfriendly tools, such as
> adjusting a light meter for black skin.  Another revelation was that film
> emulsions were calibrated for white skin, and thus don't work will with
> black, brown or red skin.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >>> On 2/21/2015 9:22 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote:
> >>> Peter Lik
> >>>  is, as my father used to say, "laughing all the way to the bank." In
> my
> >>> mind if you are IN Caesars Palace you ARE the joke. But what do I
> know, I
> >>> am no Peter Lik, a man rich in confidence. Never heard of him till this
> >>> article, though.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#
> >>>
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In reply to: Message from kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney) ([Leica] Peter Lik’s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. - NYTimes.com)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Peter Lik’s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. - NYTimes.com)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Peter Lik’s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. - NYTimes.com)