Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>In its special "150 years of optics" series I have to hand it to Leica...they sure know how to generate revenue! Take an M6, give it fancy engraving and non-endangered naugahyde to commemorate ANY event, historical person, wedding, year of the <your favorite animal>, completion of the Wetzlar Zoo, or what have you, then quadruple the price and voila. Personally, I'll wait a few years and pick one up that the original owner has taken with him (or her) on safari, up the Amazon, to the top of Everest (and hopefully back down again), and possibly to the bridge of the Titanic, and is now bored and wants to sell it. Hopefully it will have just the right amount of brassing and other wear marks that say "I was used!!!!" Jim Bauman PS: Is it true that all Columbus M6s were shipped without shutters, and no one knew until 1997? :-)