Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/15
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Dr.Blacktape Feels a Need To Comment...
This sounds a bit like a case of lens envy....A lucky few can afford a lot
of equipment, and can afford to "dabble" in one system or another, and most
of us can't. Just like some people can afford more and better cars than
others, etc. etc. That's life. Those with the financial ability to "dabble"
may have some sort of social obligation to the less fortunate, but somehow
Dr. Blacktape doesn't think that obligation extends to what they do or don't
do with the Leica equipment they no longer need any more.
And, as has been noted, it's only equipment, guys. Great equipment, but
equipment none the less...even if some LUGers give it names.... ;-)
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Roger
Beamon
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 11:45 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Summilux vs. Summicron
On 15 Jul 99, Mark Rabiner wrote, at least in part:
> 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.
If not over the deep end, at least speaking like a pro who will
amass a collection of gear in the normal course of their work.
Pros know that they *will* need that particular item again in the
future; they just don't know when. The pro also can write off a bit
of the value of the gear making its continued possession justified.
Many amateurs will budget a hunk of money for their
hobby/hobbies and jump in and out of gear whimsically. An
entirely different value system at work. "Insult to the equipment"?
Hardly! Some heavy duty anthropomorphizing going on, I think. Is
the implication that the non-pro should donate the no longer
desired piece to a deserving person who will use it to make a
living with it or create great photographs with it? Fine, if you want
to and can afford to. I don't and can't.
> 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.
You make that sound like a command. I might or I might not
share with you what I feel is wrong with something as I prepare to
sell/trade it. If I want it and can afford it [in the US, even if you
can't afford it. 8^) ], you may do it.
Yep, frivolous and pricey toys, the luxury of being an amateur.
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Roger
mailto:roger@beamon.org
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson