Re: [Leica] Re: bricks

[Jeff S <4season@boulder.net>]

You may not be a collector, but I am, and I became one as soon as I
found myself owning more Leicas than I really could use on any one shoot
or explain away as backup gear. This collector likes to be selective
about what he owns, and prefers to own a lot less than he could. That is
my preference; yours may vary. And yes, I really do think that offering
up high quality scanned images of literature and packaging into the
public domain is a great idea so long as they are out of copyright--this
sort of thing should work very well as a sort of "collective collection"
and it in no way hinders the efforts of paper collectors.

Jeff Segawa

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Dan Cardish wrote:
> 
> Who are you to say what is worth owning?  Having you or a thousand people
> like you state that Leicas aren't worth owning means nothing to the people
> who think that Leica ARE worth owning.   Like I said, I am not a collector,
> but I sure as hell am not about to stop someone else from being one.   And
> as I tried to imply,  Leicas seem as worthy to collect as postage stamps or
> coins (or train sets).
> 
> I mean, really!
> 
> Dan C.
> 
> At 06:04 AM 04-07-00 -0600, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >