Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> (People in Japan) > Why are they buying so many of the M3s and M4s? To use, to collect, to > invest, all of the above? I realize different people will have different > reasons, but as a whole, what is the reason for the demand being so great > there? > > Do they truly like and use the Leica as a photographic instrument or do they > consider it a relic of the past, eclipsed by their own industry, and now > collected as a sort of fossil? > > -Dave This summer in Tokyo I saw a guy with a Leica screwmount around his neck, sitting next table to me (and my parent-in-laws) inside a restaurant at Ginza. I asked my mother -in-law to ask him what model this screwmount is. The guy said he wears the camera mostly for a "retro style fashion". By the way, his backpack is by Prada; the watch, Agnes. /Leslie Oh, I don't think or mean that most Leicas in Japan are used as fashion accessories.