Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: new Leica special commemoration model
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 05:57:56 -0600 (CST)

Just re-affirms who Leica sees as their "customer base".......


On Mon, 8
Feb 1999, Jim Bauman wrote:

> 
> >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?  :-)
> 
> 
>