Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Johnston wrote: >In any event, if you are able to "use up" a Leica lens by shooting with it, >you should be proud of yourself, not sorry. What are they for? <g> Tom Kachadurian wrote: >When your tools are too dear to use, it's time to get different tools. Indeed, that's exactly what they are for but there seems to be a rather large contingent of leica owners out there who think the stuff is made to sit in boxes on the shelf. Occassionally the cameras and lenses may be taken out of their pristine, dust-free environment to be admired and shown off or sold but then, quickly, before any thoughts of taking a picture with it should arise, they are put back in their boxes where they don't belong. I met with a collector recently to sell my M4P but since it has seen five years of use it's no longer in mint condition and he was not interested. He had a chrome M6 for sale that had never seen a roll of film. His price was good but I was suddenly overcome with the urge to take his precious M6 and bludgeon him with it. Now the price is a whole lot better.:) As for the on-going, never-ending filter debate, here's my $0.02 (CAN, so that's $0.0136 US): Why put a $50 piece of glass in front of a $2,000 piece of glass. My lenses are filthy but that's only according to people like the gentleman with the leica emblem permanently imprinted on his skull (see above) ;) Now, pass the Oban, I must clean my 28. Pv Paul vanPeenen and Liz van'terve paddler@istar.ca