[Leica] Leica users group, LUG, so what does that mean?

[jmaddox01 at suddenlink.net (jmaddox01 at suddenlink.net)]

Amen! Refreshingly true.



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Sunday, January 31, 2016, 3:56 PM -0500 from steve.barbour at gmail.com  
<steve.barbour at gmail.com>:
>Leica users group, LUG,  what does that mean?  Several individuals have 
>confided to me recently, "it?s really a state of mind?.  Let?s face it, 
>there are few offerings of interest from Leica these days, that we can 
>afford, or desire to, while more and more  we all find great offerings from 
>many other camera and lens makers. We all insist we are leica devotees, yet 
>many of us, if not most, are using other makers' cameras and lenses. We 
>often find that leica lenses from the past, actually work as well on other 
>makers current camera bodies, sometimes better than on leica?s own bodies. 
>We publish a wonderful yearly book of photos, that we call the LUG 
>yearbook, yet insist that the photos can come from any and all camera/lens 
>sources,  and images do originate from many other sources. We criticize 
>robustly, even occasionally correctly, the offerings from Leica, their 
>appearance, technical details, prices, yet we remain here and claim to be 
>Leica users. So what is it that we have in common, that keeps here in this 
>group, why do we self identify as Leica users ?
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>There are some truly great photographers here, not because they use leicas, 
>other reasons may exist. We really are a community, sometimes even a 
>family, occasionally very dysfunctional. Some of the most opinionated among 
>us use leicas, or used to, or desire to, even though at present that use is 
>limited, or nonexistent. 
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>We are at present, among the most capable, open minded, flexible, sure of 
>ourselves, opinionated, fractious, difficult, stuck up shooters that exist. 
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>It may be time to talk.
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>steve
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