Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Cardish wrote: > > I'm not a collector, but looking through the books I own on Leicas, I can > certainly see the appeal. There are so many models going back so many > years, and there are all the model variations. It seems virtually > impossible to amass a complete collection, and this is probably the main > motivation for collectors. > > Why not indeed? Because not everything is worth owning? I enjoy being shown a fine collection and absorbing some of the lore, but being a museum curator is not one of my life's ambitions! A few (extra) pieces that actually mean something are plenty for me. I used to own Lionel trains and I thought that some of the sought-after variations were actually kind of ugly, so I never went that route. Instead, I'd just pick up a item here or there if I thought it'd be fun to fuss with; If I didn't find myself playing with it much, I'd sell it, so out went all of the F3 locomotives and even a magnificent scale NYC Hudson loco! I think I bought camera equipment, made investments and went travelling with some of the proceeds and in retrospect think that was a fine idea. Idea for Leica box-collectors: Make high quality scans of all sides of the box and distribute the images freely so that anyone with a photo printer can build a fine replica! Let's flood the market with all sorts of nice free scans of manuals, warranty cards and misc junk so that everyone who wants one can have one and we can get this out of our systems already. I'll start by offering a pretty nice PDF of a Hasselblad 500c manual I made awhile back (must be around here somewhere on one of my disks) Jeff Segawa no archive