Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Summilux vs. Summicron
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:45:15 -0700

Dan Post wrote:
> 
> I think that anyone who wants to get a new (new/used) lens, or camera, or
> just change for that matter, they should not have to give any explanation...
> Like I tell Old Thing- I JUST WANTED IT! and she says, "Very well, Dear! If
> it will make you happy!"
> And YES! You too, can have a relationship like that! The secret recipe? Find
> a good and loving woman, and sprinkle liberally with jewelry!
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: TSL <eno22@enter.net>
> To: <leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Summilux vs. Summicron
> 
> > SNIP<<Your frivolous pricey toys are other people's dream tools.
> > You want to trade it in for something suposedly better tell us how
> > exactly it let you down and how you think this new thing isn't goint to.
> > Mark Rabiner
><snip>

I'm not putting down our acquisitiveness. I say go out and get it! Charge it up! 
But hearing about trading for it so it's not as if you had to pay can often bug
me. It's like you get something for nothing so you care about it
accordingly...so when the next thing comes along you trade that in. Where's the
commitment? What has value? It's like investing 5 grand in cameras and recycling
that investment over and over again so you are not bored with your little
materialistic world but not having to shell out any extra. Where's the
Photography? No wonder these cameras are being used to shoot film that goes to
the minilab.
I say grab that Summilux! But I hate hearing the implication that the Summicron
"let me down" "was not what I thought it would be" to justify trading it in that
beautiful cut gem that deserved a more committed master.
IMHO (In Mark's hedonistic optimism)
Mark Rabiner