Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Camera AG - Solms
From: Edward Meyers <aghalide@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 08:00:10 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Pascal wrote:

> On 30-12-1997 03:09 Dan Cardish wrote:
> 
> >
> >Why get rid of a good camera just because the company that makes them also
> >sells tie clips?  What does one have to do with the other?
> >
> >Dan C.
> >
> Actually, I am using the Leica coffee mug (R8 edition), and it is quite 
> nice in its graffiti look. It is used to hold as a pen-holder next to my 
> computer on my desk at home.
> I also now and then wear the silk R8 design tie. Very discreet, you 
> couldn't guess it's from Leica unless you knew the R8 style collection 
> (only red dot, no Leica name).
> The Leica glass loupe/magnifier is a nice and very useful outfit for your 
> office.
> And the latest calender "landscapes" for 1998 has very nice pictures for 
> only 15 DEM. This one is a must for all LUGgers!
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Pascal
> Belgium
> 
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Please note: My friend who was against Leica being in the "mug"
business, was not against Leitz (Leica) giving the clothes brushes
and Leica knives away as promotional gifts. He was of the
opinion that these items should "not a business make." I still
have the Leitz knife and clothes brush given to me when I visited
the Wetzlar factory for the first time in 1963 (or was it 1962?).
And my friend was the P.R. person who gave them to me. But he
had other radical ideas, such as "repairs should be a break-even
service of camera manufacturers," not a for-profit business,
as it turns out to be. I guess he was a Socialist. Fact is that
in his day he actually gave many Leicas away to photographers.
We all should be so lucky.
As a matter of history, the Leitz knife I referred to was given
to each of the journalists attending the "secret" introduction
of the first Leicaflex in Wetzlar. So there are about 30 or 40
old people out there with them. Again, I'm not certain if it 
was 1962 or 1963.
Is there someone out there who remembers? It was just following
the photokina in Koln.
Ed Meyers