Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 4/20/01 9:24:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, durling@widomaker.com writes: << I think there is definately a correlation between liking things like fountain pens and enjoying the Leica. It may be the contrast with the plastic high-techiness of contemporary things that is so deeply satisfying. >> Yes, yes and yes. Try 1960s Ferrari autos and Omas fountain pens, the latter still made in Bologna the old-fashioned way. In 1926, Omas' founder invented the safe way to make celluloid barrels for fountain pens, by rendering nitrocellulose inert (otherwise flammable and potentially explosive). And unlike every other pen manufacturer, to maintain satisfactory quality Omas manufactures its own vegetal resin from cotton it has for years obtained from a single plantation in Latin America. Sounds like the old Ernst Leitz family philosophy. LaK 9