Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > At 09:41 PM 3/5/98 -0800, you wrote: > > >Eric, you are missing the point, but then you already know that. > I didn't miss the point at all. (snip) sorry Eric, I thought you could read better than that. let me explain it to you. you went off on a "Solms the city and engraving" tangent when it had NOTHING to do with the post you were responding to. Go back and READ it instead of reacting to what isn't there. A very common reference to the present Leica managment on the LUG is simply "Solms," as though you never noticed it before. > But then, I'm not a collector. And if a large collector has great > looking > Polish fakes, well that's just great. But I really doubt the story the > > Leica sold them the tools to do it. There's lots of urban legends > around > about everything Leica, like who made the original Aspherical lens, > and > what was the reason they fell apart, and the old man and the > apprentice and > all that. Having a large collection doesn't mean you can't be > mistaken. I'm > not saying he is, I just find it rather strange that Leica would do > such a > thing, and find it all too easy to doubt because of the oft' held > opinon > around here and elsewhere that Leica lost it when they left the > magical > kingdom of Wetzlar. > No Eric, once again go back and read the post, not what you added to it. The guy who bought the engraving machine and the collector are entirely different people. As far as these passing the "test of Eric," you know something, I don't give a rat's ass. This is free speech and a discussion format. Stephen Gandy > ========== > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > Maniac: An early computer built by nuts...