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Is discussion of photography in its wider sense really "nothing to do with Leica"? I think not. Nothing would make me leave this forum sooner than if it were to degenerate into endless rounds of 'which camera/lens/accesssory should I buy' or 'is this lens better than that one' or even (god forbid) 'will my camera work if I take the battery out' type threads.

 

Why is it the case that actually talking about photography (as opposed to gear) seems to make people clam up on so many forums?

 

This book isn't of any interest to me, but it may be of some to other members here.

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Agree with Tim on this. This kind of post is infinitely less tedious than endless speculation about the digital M, coded lenses, etc. Having said this, there is something a bit 'spammy' about the way the post is worded.

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Well, it's a personal opinion, but this guy has "previous" (as we would say in the UK) of posting pasted articles from whereever, using this forum as some sort of soap box. I wouldn't mind if the photographer in question was a habitual Leica user but there's no evidence to that effect.

 

Dig a little deeper, and you'll find a kitsch interview by "Billy N" of his daughter about why she voted for Dubya. Oh yuck.

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Having said this, there is something a bit 'spammy' about the way the post is worded.

 

That I do agree with. Personally speaking I've never even heard of this 'noted photographer'. Then again, I don't tend to look at fashion mags! :D

 

I don't have any problem with someone making a book recommendation here though.

 

As for why someone voted for a particular politician, so what (unless that politico happens to be some frothing lunatic who hopes to wipe an entire country off the map; guess who?, or rather closer to home, someone who is so infantile as to apparently base his entire foreign policy on "doing the opposite of America"; guess who again if you care).

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I think it is always interesting to get books recommended. I do not find it an advertisment, nor spamming.

 

I find that any photo relevant post that might interest a section of the Leica users is relevant to post at the forum. And "photo relevant" goes from storage medias to computers to photographic techniques to Leica cameras and lenses.

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Well I'm tempted to scream 'get the horizon level', but then again it probably not intended as a book of landscape photography ;-)

 

I don't have an issue with mentioning books by photographers who don't/didn't use Leicas. That would preclude us from mentioning people such as Capa (Contax), Salgado (now Pentax), Ronis (Pentax) etc. The reason (I hope) that we spend all this money on buying camera equipment is to take photographs. Anything that may help us improve as photographers in a good thing IMHO.

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There's a fine line here, folks.

 

If everyone who read a book on photography (or in this case, I suspect, just looked at the pictures :) ) posted "Here's an excellent book", then this forum would look like Amazon before you could say "Leica".

 

I, for one, do not necessarily think this type of post is inappropriate, but I do agree that William N's posts do have a "dump and run" theme to them. To my recollection, he has seldom engaged in discussion about the posts that he makes. (We all seem to do that for him - clever, labour-saving tactic on his part... :) )

 

So, while I would absolutely not want this forum to turn into a fondlers' paradise, and welcome wider discussion about photography in general, the computers and other hardware and software (film and digital) that we use, I would ask William N (if he reads responses to his posts) to engage in the forum rather than using this "commando raid under the cover of darkness" approach.

 

That way, everyone would feel that he has more to contribute to the forum than pseudo-spam links to other people's work. I would especially welcome to see some of William's Leica work posted here.

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