Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Zone blues
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:10:31 +0200

From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 19:31
Subject: RE: [Leica] Zone blues


> There's absolutely no value added in patronizing the local shop--and
> a great deal of expense supporting indifferent service.

As long as you can get what you want from _somewhere_, reliably and at a decent
price, and within a reasonable time, what advantage is there to having a local
photo shop, anyway?

> By the way, this is the local Leica dealer--who refers
> to my M3 and M4P as "that old Leica stuff" and who
> expressed doubt upon first view of the
> 75/1.4 that it was a "genuine" Leica lens.  Go figure.

I must be lucky here, then.  The all-Leica store where I got my M6 could
scarcely be more Leicaphile.  I'm sure that any of the employees there could
easily spend an entire day discussing Leica equipment.  They seem to have
everything in stock, too, in case you win the lottery and feel like shopping.

  -- Anthony