Re: [Leica] Old Leica thoughts-

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

I am going to change the subject line here in response to Mark Hammons'
post:
I don't particulay want a wartime Leica- the pressures put on German
industry made the possibility of diminished quality... Nicht war? or not?
Anyway, I got a IIIc so I could have a camera very nearly my own age (52)
just to say that I had and used a camera as old as I was. I like the idea of
a 1938 Leica because it was contemporary  with so much history ( the year
Emelia Earhart went missing- close to the demise of lighter than air
airships, and so many things you see on the history channel!).
They are also one of the few cameras from those early years that still work
and can still be readily fixed even today!
I remarked to the manager of our store (Well Known Photo Chain) when the guy
that came in complaining that we were trying to get him to pay more money or
some such because we couldn't get his Pentax Spotmatic fixed at the facility
the store uses! I told John I felt like waving my 50 year old Leica under
his nose and shouting, "If you'd gotten a camera that was worth a damn to
begin with, we wouldn't be having this conversation...."
But, I had taken my Prozac that day, and just quietly chuckled instead!
Dan
dwpost@msn.com