Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/25

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Subject: Re: 40 years on
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:18:49 -0500

Alastair

I haven't the foggiest what your comment about geography was meant to be.
If you have something to say, I suggest you say it and cease being cute or
cryptic.

I have a Voigtlander Bessa given me in 1962.  I still use it.  It was 30
years old when I got it.  It is now 65 years old.  My son uses it, on
occasion.  I would expect him to use it when I pass it on.

My father has given me his 1939 Weston light meter.  I still use it.  I
expect to leave THIS to my son.  My father has also given me his Kodak 8mm
movie camera -- I have one roll of film left but, alas, the format is dead,
so, I guess THAT sixty-year-old now becomes a museum piece.

I purchase things and spend more than I should, as I expect them to last.
I am rarely disappointed.  My 1967 Sunbeam Alpine is an example.

Marc


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