Re: [Leica] Never ready angst!

[Ted Grant <tedgrant@home.com>]

mike pailliotet wrote:
> 
> Now I know why I was a little apprehensive about using an Every ready,
> ..... fear of being assaulted by a brassy old Leica fart in a back alley
> ! I can just imagine it , while getting smacked upside the head with a
> M3 (which by the way would add some more "character" to their camera,
> seeing as I have a very hard head) I would also get lecture on the
> appropriate way to use and abuse my M6 ......
> Just kidding Ted !, I can't wait for my first dent and or scratch  , the
> damn thing looks just a little to pretty as it is!

Hi Mike ,  and others,

Look at it this way in the sense of your new car. And I'm sure all of
you who have purchased one  has gone through this routine.

You bring it home and you want to wash it right away, clean it when it
isn't even 100 miles old.  You baby it along, take up two parking spots
at the mall or club so no one will ding the side. Man ever so careful 
Until  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first little zit happens. Whew! Thank goodness that's finally
happened, I couldn't take the "CARE TENSION"  much longer.  You all know
exactly what I'm talking about.

Now it's exactly the same thing with a Leica.  You carry that prized
jewel around like the Hope Diamond, breath gently on it for a slight
soft wipe over, caress and comfort it as you load a
roll of film, removing the lens cap as carefully as your first loves
negligée. :) (Top that for careful removal!)   :):)  

Then one day you bend over and "Bump, ding dong!   Oh sh,,t!"  And right
after that?  You're now cool hand Luke handling the Hope Diamond Leica
as if it were a coke bottle. your cares are over, you settle down to
becoming a full time hard nose Leica shooter first class!

Your pictures improve because, now your mind is clear from the "overly
constant fear of getting the first ding-dong!"   Cool scenario, don't
you think? :)

That's why I don't use cases, because I couldn't come up with any better
reason why I don't. :) Other than they're never ready to do anything
when you need the camera in a hurry, which in my case alway seemed to be.

However, I will admit quite openly that on a few occasions I don't have
any doubt the camera would not have suffered the "blemish" it did, if it
were in a "never ready" case.  Don't you all feel better now that I made
that confession?  ;) 

ted