[Leica] Interesting MP

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Okay, so lift the baby out of the case, fire it off at all shutter
speeds, and put it back in the case. ;-)

As everyone knows, I am not a collector, don't consider collecting
photography or a branch of photography, and consider most of what passes
for collecting to be nothing more than acquiring. But at the same time,
I certainly believe in preserving meaningful examples of mass produced
products -which, as I said, might mean the first of each model
rangefinder camera Leica produced. What it doesn't mean is M4-2 #306
because it's a "low number." So what? There have to be low numbers, and
high numbers, but they don't tell us anything meaningful about the
history of the product's development.

B. D.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Craig Zeni
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 8:54 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Interesting MP


These are mechanical items - they need to be used, at least a little.  
I'm not saying trot them out to the kid's soccer|football game, but 
don't stick 'em in a case and never use 'em.

Example:  The Schlumpf collection of automobiles in Mulhouse in France. 
  Priceless cars - Bugattis especially.  If the car is complete enough 
to run, they will pull it out of the display and drive it once or twice 
a year.  Rest assured they're not driving them in hailstorms or rain, 
but they DO get driven.  It's good for the machinery.  One of the staff 
told me that if a car's not driven, it's just furniture with an engine.

CZ
NC

On Nov 21, 2004, at 10:32 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> There I'll agree with you - because a very limited item like that 
> belongs in a museum, or company collection. Just as the first O, the 
> first M3, etc., belong under glass.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
> Of Dan C
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:58 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Interesting MP
>
>
> Recall the movie "The Magic Christian"?    There was a scene where 
> Peter
> Sellers buys a valuable Rembrandt from gallery owner John Cleese, and 
> then proceeds to cut the nose out of the portrait in the painting, 
> much to Cleese's chagrin.
>
> Buying a 24x34 Nikon rangefinder and using it is like cutting the nose

> out of a Rembrandt.
>
> -dan c.
>
>
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