Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lieca QC--a joke?
From: Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:16:45 -0400
References: <B58F222B.5C55%howard.390@osu.edu>

Hey - no need to apologize.  I can take a joke - and a second after
I hit "send", I realized a slight tug on my pant leg (and it wasn't
my Golden Retriever).

But thanks for the consideration.

Vick

Martin Howard wrote:

> Summicron1@aol.com jotted down the following:
>
> > And just how does this have anything to do with the quality of the lens?
> > Really, did I miss something here?
>
> I wrote the initial "Leica QC" message to the LUG as a comment of the other
> Leica QC threads that kept on popping up.  I'm was getting pretty sick of
> the simple-minded, counter-factual reasoning that goes on in these Leica QC
> threads, so I wrote this as a humorous take on the whole situation.  I'm
> still convinced that Leica owners, by and large, spend waaaay too much time
> fussing over their equipment instead of just dealing with any problems
> (which anything manufactured has) and taking pictures.
>
> I mean, it's no more unreasonable to think that spending an absurd amount of
> money on a camera/lens is going to make you immune to manufacturing/
> packaging/shipping/or any other kind of failure, than it is to
> assume that spending the same absurd amount of money on a camera/lens is
> going to make you a brilliant photographer.
>
> My apologies to Vick Ko: while the initial joke was made funnier by the fact
> that he rose to the bait, I feel that I may have inadvertantly made him look
> bad publicly.  That was never my intention to anyone.
>
> M.
>
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