Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Pascal wrote: > On 30-12-1997 03:09 Dan Cardish wrote: > > > > >Why get rid of a good camera just because the company that makes them also > >sells tie clips? What does one have to do with the other? > > > >Dan C. > > > Actually, I am using the Leica coffee mug (R8 edition), and it is quite > nice in its graffiti look. It is used to hold as a pen-holder next to my > computer on my desk at home. > I also now and then wear the silk R8 design tie. Very discreet, you > couldn't guess it's from Leica unless you knew the R8 style collection > (only red dot, no Leica name). > The Leica glass loupe/magnifier is a nice and very useful outfit for your > office. > And the latest calender "landscapes" for 1998 has very nice pictures for > only 15 DEM. This one is a must for all LUGgers! > > Greetings, > > Pascal > Belgium > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Message sent on a Macintosh PowerBook G3, the world's fastest laptop > -------------------------------------------------------- > <<< PGP public key available on request >>> > > Please note: My friend who was against Leica being in the "mug" business, was not against Leitz (Leica) giving the clothes brushes and Leica knives away as promotional gifts. He was of the opinion that these items should "not a business make." I still have the Leitz knife and clothes brush given to me when I visited the Wetzlar factory for the first time in 1963 (or was it 1962?). And my friend was the P.R. person who gave them to me. But he had other radical ideas, such as "repairs should be a break-even service of camera manufacturers," not a for-profit business, as it turns out to be. I guess he was a Socialist. Fact is that in his day he actually gave many Leicas away to photographers. We all should be so lucky. As a matter of history, the Leitz knife I referred to was given to each of the journalists attending the "secret" introduction of the first Leicaflex in Wetzlar. So there are about 30 or 40 old people out there with them. Again, I'm not certain if it was 1962 or 1963. Is there someone out there who remembers? It was just following the photokina in Koln. Ed Meyers