RE: [Leica] dan's new leica

["Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com>]

Thank you so much, Kyle, for this cogent advice, but why oh why didn't you
warn me sooner!!!  I'd actually already touched the outside of the box in
several places, incurring some finger smudges and such.  I deeply fear I've
already lost hundreds in value by this mistake alone.  But at least I had
the foresight not to _open_ the box!

The Minilux, by the way, stays in a special, vaccuum-tight glass case.  I
only shoot with the Holga.

:),
Dan (who is already wondering how he can have his M6 welded to his forehead)

> dear god, dan! do NOT attempt to remove the leica from the box! that will
> begin the process of wear and devaulate it considerably. if you were to
> remove it from the box, for example, and say, take it on safari to africa
> where it is eaten by an elephant and passed three days later in a swamp
> outside of narobi, and upon recovery you discover that the light meter has
> stopped working and the shutter is frozen but is otherwise cosmetically
> intact, you'll have to advertise it as "MINT MINUS" when you go to sell it
> on ebay. besides, no one is yet sure what will happen if you try and put
> film in a leica....
>
> keep it in that box and do all your snap-shootin with a minilux.
>
> your best interests in mind,
>
> kc