Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: chrome cleaning
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:39:32 -0700

"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> > > Whatever your attitude to how the gear that you use looks, would
> > > anybody actually pay more for ugly gear?
><Snip> 
> If anyone ever wondered if "the medium is the message," the answer sits
> above...
> 
> I realize I'm being insulting, but this is one of the more bizarre things
> I've ever read on this list...Not liking the way brassing looks, but saying
> that one would actually pay a premium to get a camera that was beaten
> up...Jim Marshall's cameras look the way they do because he has beaten the
> hell out of them over the years TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS...Intentionally buying a
><Snip> 

It's like proudly wearing someone elses battle medals and battle scars!
Mark Rabiner
the kinds which peel off of course like the tatoo's of ships.