Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Der Grüne Punkt
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:53:06 -0700
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"M.E.Berube - GoodPhotos" wrote:
><Snip> 
> Should we care if a lens is made in Fiji as long as it offers me the
> characteristics that we buy it for and stands up to use? (rhetorical
> question.) Just being made in Germany doesn't make an instrument superior
> does it? If this were true I'd still be shooting primarily with my vintage
> Kodak Rettinette which I loved. (needs a sticky shutter fixed)
> 
> CL,
> Michael

They're  making you think you are buying a product from a company which has been
in business for 244 years. 
This has meaning to some people. 
History means a heck of a lot to some people. 
Some obsess with Nationality. The fact that companies including our beloved
Leica "misrepresent" or better said "LIE" about such issues indicates they are
issues with much weight in the publics buying mind.
WHO you are. Your NAME.
Some people don't care what kind of car they drive as long as it's BLUE. When
they picked up thier car and it was green they would feel they didn't get the
goods they were promised.
Mark
By the way when i was 13 in 1965 I got my first camera with adjustments; A
Voigtländer Vito BL.
My Grandfather Abraham Rabiner had given it to my father. I got it when he got
his Contarax Bulls eye. Anyone wants to see a shot i did with it E-mail me
privately and I'll email it to you: Mother and child in doorway. I shot it in
1968 on the South West side of Chicago.

In reply to: Message from BOB KRAMER <BobKramer@COOPERCARRY.com> (RE: [Leica] b.d.'s planning something dangerous!)
Message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> ([Leica] Voigtländer Bessa-R ad)
Message from John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu> (Re: [Leica] Voigtländer Bessa-R ad)
Message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Voigtländer Bessa-R ad)
Message from John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu> (Der Grüne Punkt WAS: [Leica] Voigtländer Bessa-R ad)
Message from "M.E.Berube - GoodPhotos" <meb@goodphotos.com> ([Leica] Re: Der Grüne Punkt )