RE: [Leica] Age and Leicas (was: Canon really has...)

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Mr. InfinityDT,

I was not intending my post to start a flame war.  If you look at it
objectively, when you were 14 which would be more than 30 years ago as you
indicate you are in your 40s, Leica was THE camera to get.  Hence the reason
you probably started with it.  To have a Leica in the 60s was owning the top
of the line.  You were probably the envy of many back then. At that time
however, everything was manual focus.  Nowadays, when you look around, there
are not many 14 year olds who would buy an M today, or an R for that matter.
They was the AF automation, and apparently it sells, whether we like it or
not.  I am sure you remember buying vinyl LPs too, I did and I still have
them but I do buy CDs nowadays although I listen to my vinyl now and then.  

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: InfinityDT@aol.com [mailto:InfinityDT@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:40 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Age and Leicas (was: Canon really has...) 


In a message dated 6/7/99 12:21:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
nathan.wajsman@euronet.be writes:

<< I got into Leica M at age 37 (last year) and just bought my first screw
 mount Leica at age 38. I think that the relatively high average age of
Leica
 owners simply reflects the fact that this IS expensive equipment, even
 second-hand, and most people in white-collar type careers do not reach
their
 peak earning years until their 40s.
 
 Nathan >>

I got into Leicas at age 14 when I inherited a pair of LTM's and a set of 
lenses from a friend of my Dad's.  I still have them to this day.  Over the 
years I purchased various M cameras and lenses, most of which I also still 
have (I figure I can always sell it if I need the money for food, as the 
value is holding or even appreciating). So when someone sees me now in my 
40's, using M6's and current lenses,  if they laugh at me that I'm just a 
boomer with excess income, that's ok with me because I know they always stop

laughing and their jaws drop when they see my Leica photos alongside their 
state-of the art Canon Rebel Quartz-Date with 20-600 f/11-22 Mushinon.