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- From: briang@atlastele.com (Brian Godfrey)
- Subject: Re: How do they know?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.210628.14389@atlastele.com>
- Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:06:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.054431.23588@ultb.isc.rit.edu> fjcppr@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >In the most recent Del's ad in Shutterbug, Tony "who knows Leica" says
- >that you can stand on a Leica without damaging it. Should I believe
- >that Tony or someone he knows has actually done that? Has anyone
- >out there in Rec.photo every stood on any camera? If so, please
- >include your weight in your reply. Also, did you stand on the camera
- >with its bottom or its back to the ground?
-
- Dear Mr(s) fjcppr,
-
- One must always be careful of statements such as "Tony, who knows Leica,
- says you can stand on a Leica." They can be very misleading. I, for example,
- once knew a hooker named Leica and you could...Oh! Never mind.
-
- Anyway, every experienced photographer has not only stood on his camera,
- at one time or another, but has also fallen on it with full force, and we
- experienced photographers are typically laden with many pounds of extra
- gear, so even a leitweight person can come down pretty hard. We all
- know that Galileo's experiments with gravity were conducted before the
- invention of cameras. Cameras, it seems, tend to fall much faster than the
- human body and so always end up beneath us when we fall.
-
- As to the overall reliability of Leica *cameras*, ask any Leicophile. It
- is a well-known fact that real photojournalists treat their camera as just
- another tool to get the job done. And remember: when all you've got is a
- hammer, everything looks like a nail. So photojournalists tend to use their
- Leicas for tire chocks, step ladders to see over a crowd, to break off
- padlocks so they can do some covert investigations, as an extra little bit
- of armor over their kevlar-lined photo vests, to take photos of violent
- beasts such as Hollywood movie stars, etc. When they are finished with
- them, or when they need a new tax write-off, they are sold to Leicophiles,
- who place them in velvet and preserve them - battle scars and all - for
- posterity. Or posteriors, since we also all tend to sit on our cameras
- from time-to-time, too.
-
- You're welcome.
-
-
- --
- --Brian M. Godfrey
- atlastele.com
-