Re: [Leica] my camera should work for _me_ not t'other wayround....

[Jeff S <4season@boulder.net>]

Bud Cook wrote:
> 
> BTW, this is being posted by an idiot that once traded a nearly new M2 for a
> used Nikon Ft and who turned down a brand new 50th Anniversary M4 w/35
> Summicron for an amazingly low price because I was worried that I'd be
> afraid to use it.
> 

Better move over there Bud, because I once turned down a minty black
Hasselblad 2000FC with A12 back and 110/2 for $900 (what a wierd focal
length, I thought, and who uses focal plane Hassys anyway?) and a 120
Makro-Planar for $600! And around '94 I simply could not seem to get
anyone to buy my late-production M3. Aside from some light scuffing,
there was nothing wrong with it, yet it was all I could do to get $500
for it--a $50 loss for me!

And then there's the matter of the $16,000,000 I missed out on by not
putting that $2,000 into Cisco Systems stock a decade ago. But would I
be living the high life today buying my Tri-Elmars brand-new, or would I
still be a cheapskate for fear of becoming merely a 15.999-millionaire?
Wouldn't want to be lumped in with...Those People, after all.

Jeff Segawa

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