Check it out; pretty hilarious stuff: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leicaslacker/.

-- Hoyin Lee (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), February 21, 2001

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Thanks for the link! Yeah, dude has set up a pretty funny website -- kudos to him! I'll take him to task on his statement re Leica lens quality though... He claims any low-end medium format system will blow the Leica away; I've owned several medium format systems and the 645's weren't much different from my Nikons, let alone my Leicas. Granted, my 6x7's had some of that "smoothness of tonality" thing going on that my 4x5 view camera has in spades. BUT, my Leicas seem to have more "smoothness of tonality" than either of the 645 systems I tried did. But hey, each to their own...

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), February 21, 2001.

So what's the point of it? So any dummy can take a dumb picture with a great camera. So what? Why bother? It does remind me of a cartoon I liked though: a guy says, "hey, I've just bought the most sophisticated camera in the world, but I can't find anything worth photographing......"

-- David Killick (Dalex@inet.net.nz), February 22, 2001.

David

I'm not retained by Kyle to defend his reputation or anything, but he has taken some nice pictures.

He just doesn't seem to take himself as seriously as the rest of us tend to do.

Rob.

-- Robert Appleby (laintal@tin.it), February 22, 2001.

Have to agree with Robert. I quite enjoyed the site, obviously someone who actually 'has fun' with photorgraphy. 'Leicaphiles' tend to take themselves way to seriously.

-- Bob Todrick (bobtodrick@yahoo.com), February 23, 2001.