Paul,
See my previous post to see how I can see your point of view.
Always open to consider other points of view,
César
Panama City, Florida
Paul Stenquist wrote:
The snakeskin is at least an attempt toe beautify, as is the
customizing of cars. By any stretch of the imagination, a piece of
tape is not an enhancement. I just don't get it. But if other like it,
that's okay. However, I've seen some of the rationales on the Leica
list, and they are indeed quite silly.
Paul
On Sep 3, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Oh, c'mon Paul ... people customize their cars and I know you don't find
that pretentious or abhorrent. In the fifties and sixties mild
customizing
was quite acceptable, and that hasn't changed to this day. Rodders
would
remove extraneous chrome trim, nose and deck their cars, maybe French
the
headlights. Not a whole lot different than a small square of black tape
over a bright red logo. So what ...
Is it just when a Leica user tapes his or her camera that you find the
practice so obnoxious? A lot of Leica users found the red dot to be so
"abhorrent" that Leica came out with a black dot. Would you find the
user
of a black dot to be pretentious? Would you find the user of a black
tape
Olympus to be as pretentious? Is a taped Leica any more obnoxious than
Cesar's snakeskin covered LX - a camera that has found champions on this
list and which has caused Cesar to receive a few good natured jibes -
but I
don't hear anyone (at least not openly) even suggesting the Cesar's
pretentious or obnoxious. Do you find Cesar to be pretentious and
obnoxious, and his choice of camera covering to be abhorrent?
Long live gaffer tape!
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Paul Stenquist
I agree. A camera is certainly not less noticeable because the logo is
covered with tape. I would guess a big-rep pro who is not getting free
cameras might cover the logo in order not to provide free advertising
for the maker. But an uncelebrated user -- even a highly skilled user
-- is of no real promotional value to the manufacturer. Among some
Leica users the black-out practice seems to be a pretension of sorts.
It's a way of calling attention to the value of their camera. That
alone is enough to make the practice abhorrent to me. But that's just
me.
