Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul Bolam wrote: > > I have an admission to make, I've just bought an M2 body to celebrate > the birth of our newborn son! > N.B. I made sure it was manufactured in the year of my birth (serial > number 93109x). > This is a clear sign of Leica addiction: Making up excuses to purchase Leica gear. > Is this a serious crime - in that I haven't told the wife about > buying this OR the recent purchase of the secondhand M6 + noctilux? Yes. The fact that you ask the question makes you guilty by uncertainty ;) > Is there salvation for me or am I condemned to celebrate life's good > fortunes with sentimental purchases? Yes, you are condemned to celebrate life's good fortunes with senti- mental purchases. However, you'll notive two things: (a) as time goes on, your sentimentality becomes increasingly expensive; (b) life's good fortunes become increasingly frequent. > > Think I'm suffering from the Leica bug - how long do the symptoms > last? > A lifetime ;) M. - -- Martin Howard, Grad. Schl. for Human-Machine Interaction, | HMI/IKP, Linkoping University, SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.| Just Tel: +46 13 28 5741; Fax: +46 28 2579; ICQ: 354739 | say "DOOH" E-mail: marho@ikp.liu.se; www.iav.ikp.liu.se/staff/marho/ +------------