Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/16

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Subject: [Leica] Bye Bye
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:30:56 +0200
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Well, just to be contrarian, I am not going to express any sorrow in  
connection with Marc's theatrical leaving and slamming the door.  
During my 11 years on the LUG, I have happily skipped past boring  
posts on obscure Russian lenses, adapters to perform various unnatural  
matings of equipment, and discussions of whether it was a capital  
offense to write Voigtl?nder without the umlaut. Once in a while I  
enjoyed one of Marc's posts, and that's fine.

But now to be told by someone who has never posted a picture that  the  
pictures posted are "rather boring" and that unless you photograph  
with a PLOOT or SNOOT or whatever on a screw-mount Leica, you are not  
a real Leica photographer, is a bit rich to put it mildly. To each his  
own. If this is how Marc really feels about the people on this list  
and the work they show us, then I say, "good riddance Sir".

Nathan

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On Apr 16, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Sorry to see you go Marc.
>
> All the best
> Douglas
>
> Marc James Small wrote:
>> I am unsubscribing from the Leica Users Group.  Almost all of the  
>> traffic now is of  rather boring pictures and the rest consists of  
>> discussions about M8 batteries or filters. I do not do digital and  
>> my pictures are my own, so I clearly do not belong here.
>>
>> Be well, folks, and,  store my address, just in case you have a  
>> memory of real Leica --- fiilm -- technology.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>> msmall at aya.yale.edu
>> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] Bye Bye)
In reply to: Message from kenlass at gate.net (Ken Lassiter) ([Leica] FS: Cleaning out the Leica junk box)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Bye Bye)
Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] Bye Bye)