Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Food for thought for Thanksgiving
From: Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 09:49:10 -0300

t 09:26 PM 25/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I disagree entirely.  The news lenses are excellent and Leica is to be
>commended.  Those who wish for the old days are welcome to them.  Enjoy the
>memories of a bygone time.  Today is good.  The old lenses were fine for their
>time.  They are inferior to today's lenses.  Art should never be used as an
>excuse for inferior quality.  
>
>Tom Shea


        Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.  ;^)



Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>                               
St. John's, Newfoundland.        
<http://www.straylight.ca/locke/>
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It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. 
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