Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Country of Manufacture
From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <rheming@attglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:06:51 -0600

Dan,

At 09:34 PM 11/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>out rare cameras to buy and actually use them.   Does it give you a warm
>fuzzy feeling inside to make other people (the collectors) uncomfortable?

>Why would I?  I already have more cameras than I can use.   Some cameras
>are better kept in glass cages.

If I buy it, why should I give a good hoot what a collector would think
about it???  It might give me a warm fuzzy feeling just to use it.  If I
lose value because of that - so be it, it is my loss.  What you are saying
is that some people think some cameras are better kept in glass cages. I
don't happen to think that - but so what?  Can you list for us a set of
parameters for which cameras should be in glass cages??

(Sorry, I'm sleepy and this just hit me wrong - kind of when I got wound up
quite a number of years ago with a national know Lugger who told me I
didn't deserve one of the more expensive leica lenses (don't now remember
which one it was) because I was just an amateur photographer.  We had quite
a private conversation - I guess I don't like people tellling me what I can
and can't do)

Take care,

Dick 

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