Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: The death of just about everything...
From: McFadden Peter <leicausergroup@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:40:44 +0100 (BST)

This adds a whole new line to the LUG.... now how
about watches?  LOL


- --- SthRosner@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated
4/20/01 9:24:23 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time, 
> durling@widomaker.com writes:
> 
> << I think there is definately a correlation between
> liking things like
>  fountain pens and enjoying the Leica.  It may be
> the contrast with the
>  plastic high-techiness of contemporary things that
> is so deeply satisfying. 
> >>
> 
> Yes, yes and yes. Try 1960s Ferrari autos and Omas
> fountain pens, the latter 
> still made in Bologna the old-fashioned way. In
> 1926, Omas' founder invented 
> the safe way to make celluloid barrels for fountain
> pens, by rendering 
> nitrocellulose inert (otherwise flammable and
> potentially explosive). And 
> unlike every other pen manufacturer, to maintain
> satisfactory quality Omas 
> manufactures its own vegetal resin from cotton it
> has for years obtained from 
> a single plantation in Latin America. Sounds like
> the old Ernst Leitz family 
> philosophy. 
> 
> LaK 9


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