Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Who are you to say what is worth owning? Having you or a thousand people like you state that Leicas aren't worth owning means nothing to the people who think that Leica ARE worth owning. Like I said, I am not a collector, but I sure as hell am not about to stop someone else from being one. And as I tried to imply, Leicas seem as worthy to collect as postage stamps or coins (or train sets). I mean, really! Dan C. At 06:04 AM 04-07-00 -0600, you wrote: >Dan Cardish wrote: >> >> I'm not a collector, but looking through the books I own on Leicas, I can >> certainly see the appeal. There are so many models going back so many >> years, and there are all the model variations. It seems virtually >> impossible to amass a complete collection, and this is probably the main >> motivation for collectors. >> >> Why not indeed? > >Because not everything is worth owning? I enjoy being shown a fine >collection and absorbing some of the lore, but being a museum curator is >not one of my life's ambitions! A few (extra) pieces that actually mean >something are plenty for me. I used to own Lionel trains and I thought >that some of the sought-after variations were actually kind of ugly, so >I never went that route. Instead, I'd just pick up a item here or there >if I thought it'd be fun to fuss with; If I didn't find myself playing >with it much, I'd sell it, so out went all of the F3 locomotives and >even a magnificent scale NYC Hudson loco! I think I bought camera >equipment, made investments and went travelling with some of the >proceeds and in retrospect think that was a fine idea. > >Idea for Leica box-collectors: Make high quality scans of all sides of >the box and distribute the images freely so that anyone with a photo >printer can build a fine replica! Let's flood the market with all sorts >of nice free scans of manuals, warranty cards and misc junk so that >everyone who wants one can have one and we can get this out of our >systems already. I'll start by offering a pretty nice PDF of a >Hasselblad 500c manual I made awhile back (must be around here somewhere >on one of my disks) > >Jeff Segawa > >no archive > >