Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Luggers, I have found a cosmetically magnificent 7x50 beh(WWII Leitz) Porro II binoculars which unluckyly has prisms very foggy and sligthly uncollimated. Is there any Lugger who can suggest who can clean and collimate these binoculars? I would prefer to find an European repairman. Thank You. Giancarlo Bozzano - -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Gary Elshaw <gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz> A: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Data: marted́ 8 giugno 1999 11.39 Oggetto: RE: [Leica] Canon really has AF figured out...BLASHPEMY? Or it is? >Sorry, but I couldn't resist responding. I'm a 28 year old Leica user who >started out by purchasing an a screwmount elmar 90. It was all i could >afford until my camera store took pity on me and allowed me to lay-by my >Leica III. I couldn't afford my M at that point, and, quite frankly, if i >tried to repeat the purchase of my M3 i couldn't do it again right now. > >Peter raised an interesting point about Leica marketing missing the >Generation X market. Well I can honestly say I'm realistic about very >little, and yet I think that Leica has probably correctly pin-pointed their >market. Very few twenty-somethings can afford to buy Leica. That is an >almost unequivocal statement. The exceptions, like my amateur self, >probably started using cameras like my venerable old Dynax and discovered >something at the camera store that arrived second-hand and were captured by >the aesthetics and the history. That is, they were captured enough so that >they saved or gradually paid-off their Leica. When my best friend asked me >for camera advice i found out very quickly that he didn't really want it. >He couldn't overcome the belief that he had to buy something new-instantly, >with some form of international warranty, and it had to be an SLR with >Nikon or Canon stamped upon it. I think he is also representative of those >who appreciate the disposability of things. My M3 just looked too old and >esoteric. > >Best wishes to you all, >Gary > > >Peter K wrote: > >" I am sure we will find some twenty somethings who use Leica Ms as well, >but it was just a >general statement. Most twenty somethings (and some thirty somethings and >older) getting into photography will probably look elsewhere was my point. >This large market of Generation X plus is being missed by Leica." >___________________________________________________________________________ > >"be a realist, demand the impossible" > >-Censier Campus Graffiti May 1968 > >Gary Elshaw B.A. (Hons), Dip Arts >Victoria University >New Zealand > >http://members.tripod.com/~elshaw/index.html >___________________________________________________________________________ >