The point is, what should it matter to anyone what anyone else does with his or her camera?
I find it most interesting that you ~seem~ to be denigrating someone who chooses to put a piece of black tape over a red dot while defending your position of reskinning your camera in snakeskin. It's also noteworthy that some people have decided that anyone who tapes a Leica is pretentious and that the practice is abhorrent. It's just a friggin' piece of tape that can be easily removed without a trace. Personally, I find your reskinned LX to be ugly, but I'd NEVER point a finger at you and characterize you by your decision to reskin the camera, just as I'd never judge Tom by what he did to his Leica M4. Take a look at the "Purple Haze" Leica on this page, which, BTW, I find just as cool as someone who wants an all black body. http://www.cameraquest.com/TAnotcoll.htm Shel > [Original Message] > From: Cesar > Subject: Re: The Gaffer Tape Chronicles (was Re: The DS - It's Here!) > > Shel, > > Since I am brought up in this thread let me respond. > > There is a difference in terms of the amount of camouflaging of the > camera. When I reskin a camera it is rather visible. The amount of > area covered by the reskinning is major. I am going from black > (inconspicuous) to rather obvious if people paid attention. And I have > found a few women do notice... :-) Now if I can reskin my *ist D! > > I can ask that if someone covers a red dot are they being rather > 'obnoxious' in the sense of how many people - not photographers, since > we can sense when a camera is upon us - will actually notice the red dot > as opposed to someone pointing an all black camera at them. > > The covering of a logo is more understandable... How many photographers > who cover non-black portions of their camera also make it a point to > wear only black? How many subjects will notice a red dot on a camera as > opposed to a bright-colored shirt or jacket? > > Just another point of view, not that it makes a difference to me,
