Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Anachronisms (was: Ted Grant's Ravings)
From: Leon Davenport <leonjdav@pacbell.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 02:15:15 -0800

I wonder if someone may have said the same thing about oil painting when
this photography stuff started.

Leon.

> From: Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:19:38 -0500
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Anachronisms (was: Ted Grant's Ravings)
> 
> Alexey Merz wrote, in part:
>> 
>> Leica Ms will sell well for the same reasons that Harley
>> Davidsons, high-end woodworking tools (planes, chisels),
>> "classic" Martin D-18 and Fender Stratocaster & Telecaster
>> guitars, the Nikon F3 and FM2, and other seemingly
>> anachronistic products continue to sell well. There
>> will always be people who prefer simple, classic,
>> exceptionally well made tools. This market is, in
>> my opinion, the only reliable market for the M.
>> 
> 
> Nah.  All that's just "end of the century" retro nonsense.  In ten to
> fifteen years time, the world will be looking ahead, full of anticipation of
> the new digital and space-aged future.  HD Evolution motors, Leica M and
> woodworking tools will be all but forgotten anachronisms.
> 
> M.
> 
> BTW -- Alexy, if you didn't like the subject heading, why didn't  you change
> it?
> 
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