Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've got to disagree with Fred Ward when he describes the Dirck Halstead article "Let's Start By Killing the Leica Collectors" as "worth reading". I downloaded it expecting to read a light-hearted gibe at collectors, but found what seemed to me to be a bitter, hate-filled diatribe. I hope that it represents some form of US "black humour" which I as a European am apparently unable to comprehend, but to me it is the most tasteless and offensive piece of writing I have read in recent years. Mr Halstead may dislike collectors who are prepared to pay high prices for equipment, but that dislike does not give him licence to attack them with such verbal abuse. Regards, Doug Richardson