[LRflex] Re: An Erwin Puts Quote
- From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:50:10 -0700
On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Richard Ward wrote:
> Query: Why does Erwin Puts 'Day Job' get him lumped in with the 'dastardly'
> politicians? At least with some observers?
> Not like the guy expense accounted taking young donors to a 'Voyeur' naked
> lady club!
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> :-)
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> Heck he seems to praise Nik's, Can's, Oly's, Voigtlanders, Zeiss', and
> criticizes them on same yardsticks as the Leicas.
he's in their pocket, with an elastic yardstick and moral code, like that of a
politician.
Steve
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> R in Mi.
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> From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, April 6, 2010 12:17:24 PM
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: An Erwin Puts Quote
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> Steve Barbour wrote:
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>> Richard Ward wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> absolutely true, it's all about the image...
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>> makes me wonder why Erwin spends so much of his time shooting test charts.
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> Because he's paid to... by Leica, amongst others.
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