Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Collen, It sounds as if you are going through a stage of attempted self masocism. You can not objectively evaluate and make a decison regarding your retaining ownership of the equipment. It is far more subjective. If you bought the Leica as a collector, keep it. Used Leica equip. generally has exceeded inflation rates over a long period. An exception to this may be the M6 and R series. If you bought the system to use and because of the quality of the optics, and advantages of the bodies, have your equipment criteria changed making the Leica technically obsolete? If yes, and you have a system (or found one which you need the $ to buy), then why keep the Leica? If on the otherhand, if our original criteria for owning the Leica has not changed; since there is really system offering its design (in current production), how would you replace it? Addmittedly, an SLR has advantages in the two areas you pointed out, but what % of your work involves them and what works better the other times. I think many here have both types of systems and for each can 'justify' them. Also, I think more than a few have sold, traded or upgraded their systems some time more out of equipment fever than need, only some time later to go back and reacquire the original model. To a small degree, you post seems to leave me with a feeling that maybe you have been inflicted with this. I for one, when inflicted, surrender my available spendable assets to my wife for very safe keeping, secure my equipment, disable my transportation and go into seclusion (especially from camera mags and stores). Slowly, I take the equip I thought could be replaced out, stroke it, play with it, fondle it and look at its photographic results. It is like a vaccine. Within a few days the disease passes. Brian Levy, J.D. Scarborough Ont.