[LRflex] Re: An Erwin Puts Quote
- From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:23:06 -0700
On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:17 AM, David Young wrote:
> Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>> Richard Ward wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Group,
>>> just wanted to post a paragraph I found on Erwin Puts website
>> (http://www.imx.nl/photo/index.html), specifically in a blog post
>> discussing 'choices'.
>>> "If Leica photographers would use only a fraction of their time they now
>>> spend on the internet discussing things Leica, for taking pictures in
>>> whatever way they seem fit, the quality of Leica imagery would explode.
>>> Taking and consuming Leica pictures is more satisfying than talking
>>> about Leica cameras. Leica cameras are not perfect. There never were."
>>> One of the things I love about this 'List' is the emphasis
>> people place upon making and sharing images. Maybe it's the
>> orphaning of R cameras, but I prefer to think it's the quality of
>> the company we're keeping here that makes the 'image' take
>> dominance. I also don't recall ever seeing an image of a test
>> chart, a newspaper, or a brick wall here. :-) I kind of like that. A lot.
>>
>>
>> absolutely true, it's all about the image...
>>
>> makes me wonder why Erwin spends so much of his time shooting test charts.
>
>
> Because he's paid to... by Leica, amongst others.
so he's paid by Leica to praise leica products and test lenses, while telling
us the take real photos and not worry about the technical details...
he sounds like a politician, with the same credibility,
Steve
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