Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Stigma
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:00:01 -0800

Doug Richardson wrote:
> 
> Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> wrote:
> 
> >We kid ourselves if we think our newer Leica's look like second hand
> archaic relics, they look darn expensive
> 
> My M6 doesn't look greatly different from my M2, and in the words of
> one of my clients (commenting on my M2) "You don't have to tell me
> that clunker is Russian!"  So at least one guy has been fooled by
> "retro" styling ...
> 
> I suspect the reality is that some thieves would recognise a Leica and
> that others wouldn't. A more likely act of photographic self-delusion
> is the idea that a brown canvas camera bag won't be recognised  as a
> camera bag but thought to be a military-surplus satchel. Like a
> portable computer case, a traditional camera case has a distinctive
> shape which is likely to catch a criminal's eye.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Doug Richardson

With camera on one arm the bag on the other would be assumed to full of
platinum plated gems from the Black Forests of Germany. (cameras)
Mark Rabiner