Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why do we use a Leica? 99% of the photographs we take require only a point & shoot all automatic camera. There is a pleasure in using a beautifully made product that will last forever if looked after. I use an IWC, which incidentally, is ecologically as green as they come. Ken's wife's Rolex would have to be serviced once in 10 years if she uses it regularly, more often if it lies in a cupboard because proper lubrication occurs only if the mechanical movement is in use. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:43 AM, R. Clayton McKee <leica@rcmckee.com> wrote: > Quoth the Ken Carney : > > > I can't understand who would want a mechanical watch. I spend a > > fair sum having my wife's Rolex cleaned and calibrated from time > > to time. > > > Wondering that myself. I wear a $7.50 casio and I haven't yet > figured out how the time reading it gives me is in any fashion > inferior to that from a multi-thousand-dollar TAG-Heuer, or Rolex, or > Patek Philippe, or whatever. > > Had a Seiko once. It was destroyed when the undercut riverbank cliff > I was unknowingly standing on gave way and I smacked my wrist on a > rock when I landed about six feet down. $100 gone in a fraction of a > second. Not worth it. > > (I still wear a wristwatch; I've never gotten accustomed to carrying > the cell phone and usually forget to take it out of my vest when I'm > not wearing it. I hate carrying the thing, actually... Goddam > electronic leash.) > > -- > > > R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com > Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com > P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 > Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >