Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Disguising my M6
From: "Tom Wyse & Jo Hughes" <joandtom@mtnhome.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:39:58 -0500

there is another way, I carry my camera over my left sholder, over my right
hip is a customized Colt Officers model....want my camera ?  try and get it.

>Someone originally wrote:
>
>"I thought of putting black electrical tape over the name and red dot."
>
> -----------------------------------------
>Then I wrote:
>
>"Again!!!  As sure as the sun rises, once per month this!"
>---------------------------------------
>Then B.D Colen wrote:
>
>"Yup. Which suggests that perhaps this is a reasonable question/issue, on
> which reasonable LUGers will reasonably disagree, all conceding that this
is
> nothing more or less than a question of what you like or don't like and
what
> makes you comfortable or uncomfortable."
>-------------------------------------
>Now....
>
>B.D. and Friends:
>
>As tired as this discussion may be, B.D. has a point, as this question does
>contunuously come up.  Obviously a security issue considering what we have
all
>invested.
>
>Consider this.  Does anyone know of a photographer who has had their Leica
>stolen out of their hands because it was a Leica?  I have heard of photogs
>being held up in Belize and had the entire camera bag stolen (US$10,000
worth
>of Nikons), but in this case, it was just because they were cameras with
>value.  I also heard today that over 60 reporters have been killed in
Algeria
>since 1990, I'm sure some cameras were stolen.  But aside from the extreme
>cases in places forewarned by the US State Dept., does anyone know of a
Leica
>stolen out of someone's hands simply for the  Leica's brand??
>
>Here's to safe shooting,
>
>Arturo
>