Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]TSL wrote: > > SNIP<<No matter what anyone tells you glowing or > otherwise you will be losing a known entity and > gaining an unknown entity. Bored as you may be my ><snip>that new lens > without selling that old one first. > A process that leads to less frivolous and/or > disastrous buying and selling.>> > Mark Rabiner > > That's some good advice for the Leicaddiction. Basically, keep your Leica > stuff! I should listen... ><snip> Of course this would apply specifically to those who can't have all > the 50's Maybe there is a catch-phrase that could imbed some logic into our > obsessions. Nu? I see People here and other guys I know who run a few rolls of film through their lens and get a few rolls back from the drugstore or minilab and say: "This lens hasn't impressed me! I think I'm going to trade it in for that newer/faster thing!" I know I sound like I'm over the deep end but I think it's an insult to the equipment and the people who make it and the people who would kill for it and the people who use it to make a living or otherwise create great photographs with it. Your frivolous pricey toys are other people's dream tools. You want to trade it in for something suposedly better tell us how exactly it let you down and how you think this new thing isn't goint to. Mark Rabiner