Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>No, forty years is way too short for my tastes! Well Marc, he who serves may serve in many ways, to be servicable for 40+ years may mean to be in continuous use or to be continuously usable, or to be made continuously usable. I see no sin in planning to make an item "adjustable" and I'm sure that if we all assumed that to repair was a sin many of the IIIc's, Super Ikonta's and pre-war Contaxes would have been put out to pasture. Perhaps you have just been lucky, do none of you cameras need repair? ;-) Oh by the way, I choose 40 as a 'generation'. There would be few of us or anyone still exclusively using anything since 1957. I guess to own a Leica before the age of 25 would be unusual and not to be thinking of a retirement present by the age of 65 likewise. Have you really been using any of this equipment for > 40 years? Cheers, Alastair Firkin NOTE new URL http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html