Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]EBay dangers is of course huge news. We could go on and on with that till the cows come home; it being our first love. What it sounds like is Commerce with a capital C. People sounding like camera store owners; they have vast experience in the selling and buying of merchandise. Ask them a question about photography or photographers or schools of photography you're going to get a whole lot less enthusiasm and vast concise experienced info. The word "photo enthusiast" comes to mind here and the better phrase would be "camera enthusiast" but I don't think even that because if a person truly loved a camera they would not buy one knowing they'd probably be unloading it less than a year later. Camera collectors I have no problem with. They clearly love cameras. When they buy one its not like they are renting one pretending to be interested in photography. They buy it and they keep it, adding it to their collection and not pretending they have any interest in the use of these tools. I'd call it playing with money. Photography or cameras even have little to do with it. -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/