Re: [Leica] mechanical shutters

["Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com>]

By then, Brenda will retire, purchase Sherry's and DAG's assets, and double
her income by servicing our Leica's with the cheerful service she has shown
us, while collecting a pension from Leica USA.

Tom

> In 25 years, Sherry and DAG and Reinhold will, I hope, be enjoying their
> much-deserved retirements on the Riviera or some South Seas island.
>
> I have yet to meet a younger person keen on mastering the internal
intricacies of the
> Leica M or screwmount cameras, nor, for that matter, any other precision
mechanical
> device. As someone who is still on the south side of 40, I despair about
the
> interests and aptitudes of my own and the following generations,
especially when I
> imagine that I may want to continue using my Leicas in my old age.
>
> Given Leica Inc.'s own increasingly spotty performance on the quality
control and
> service score, perhaps moving soon to electronics and their concomitant
> "broken-replace it"  philosophy  will be the best way to insure survival
for the
> marque. People like Sherry and DAG and Reinhold are bound to become as
scarce as the
> rarest Leica one day.
>
> Emanuel Lowi
> Montreal