Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Cardish wrote: > > A hammer is a tool. How many carpenters buy and use those special limited > edition hammers? If the camera is just a tool to be used, it makes no > sense to worry about whether brass shows through the paint or not, or > whether there is a cute little logo engraved on the top. You should be too > busy using the tool to even notice things like this. > > Not that there's anything wrong with special edition leicas. If you like > them, buy them. Just stop calling them tools. > > Dan C. > > At 02:11 AM 29-07-99 -0700, you wrote: > > > >Black enamel Leica's are already out there being used everyday. They have > >history. They seem usable. Nothing wrong with shooting with a distinctive, ><snip> Not an agument against what you are saying, but tools in the sense of a carpenter with his stuff hanging off his/her belt can get pretty anal about that stuff too. Maybe they've hammer has got a resin graphic titanim you name it with questionable end advantages. But if is what you use all day than why not?! Maybe it should new but not too new depending on the individual. Mark Rabiner