Re: [Leica] Re: leica made me a better photographer

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

While I don't want to disagree, because I don't- I feel that Leica has
definitely turned me into a slavering, drooling, fanatic- mostly broke, and
often in my little hidey-hole caressing their smooth, firm bodies.....

Dan (Panting desperately) Post
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From: "Mallik Kovuri" <mkovuri@peoplepc.com>
To: "Leica-Users-Digest" <leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 11:51 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: leica made me a better photographer


> While I do not consider myself to be a very good photographer to be able
to
> challenge photographs by/in NUG, I can definitely feel and see some
> differences between Leica and other cameras. Leica puts reality in front
of
> us. Like some one quoted, other cameras, including Nikon, show the scene
in
> an artistic way. For example in the trees photographs of Nikon list, most
of
> the pictures look like more like paintings than reality. To me they look
> unnatural rather than bringing out the reality. For example the picture
with
> the tree and hut, can you tell the distance between the tree and the hut?
I
> cannot. These are flat two dimensional pictures. While Leica puts reality
in
> front of us. I think optically Leica lenses are the best, OPTICALLY. I had
> been an ardent user of Nikon and other SLR cameras, and still do. They
have
> their own strengths, particularly the extra telephoto and close-ups or
> fish-eyes. But optically, I think Leica is incomparable to any. I do not
> think I am biased.
>
> Mallik.
>
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