Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand wrote: Mark, Have you factored in inflation? The investment return is far less than what you think. Better than 0, as in zero! We don't "invest" in our gear, the return on classical Leitz/Leica cameras and lenses is merely a pleasant by-product of a decision to buy and use the best. Reminds me of the tale Lucius Beebe tells in his book "The Twentieth Century Limited" the New York Central Railroad's crack train that connected New York and Chicago for more than the first half of the - ta-da! - 20th Century. It was an all-room Pullman train and the dining car food and service was at such a level that rich folks booked drawing rooms and rode the "Century" from New York City to Albany just to enjoy dinner in the dning car, then took the night train back down the Hudson to NYC. Beebe interviewed the great writer, designer and theater impresario, Merle Armitage, who traveled constantly between New York and Chicago and who said that he regarded the Century as his 'gentlemen's club' between the two cities. When Beebe asked him why he so liked the Century he answered ' Mr. Beebe, I want very little in life, only the best, and there's very little of that!' S.