RE: [Leica] Leica has some nerve . . . .

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

RP -

First - The Nikon clerk is at least honest enough to laugh and be ashamed -
and he's selling stuff for at least half the Leica prices -

Second - Where do they go? There are two possibilities:

	1. There is probably a really hot bodycap/lens cap collectors market -
buyers who have never taken a photo in their lives, but buy-sell-and-trade
lens caps, etc.
	2. There's always a chance they've gone off to marry and have babies with
those socks that go into the washing machine but never seem to come back
out... ;-)

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> RP Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 10:02 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica has some nerve . . . .
>
>
> Bob and BD,
>
> Strange coincidence (well, it is a holiday for us drones, but
> not for the
> camera shops), but I too was pricing Leica front lens caps
> today.  The Leica
> clerk was very serious, but the Nikon clerk was laughing so
> hard that he
> could not get his breath and was turning blue.
>
> Nikon users have long made reference to Nikon's "ultrasecret, miracle
> plastic from Mars" when they have learned the price for a
> little plastic
> piece: lens hood, the little screw-in cap that covers the
> electronic remote
> shutter port, etc.  And Nikon owners regularly trade
> information about which
> plastic container lids will work on which lenses as caps.
> Pringles potato
> chip caps are a standard issue as are various Tupperware lids.
>
> After all the laughter died down, the Leica guy admitted that
> they had a box
> in the back (in the dark) that had 3rd party lens caps.
> These run under
> $10, but you have to sort of try them for fit to each lens
> individually.
>
> My question is:  every Leica lens I look at (new or used) has
> a lens cap;
> but every Leica lens I buy is missing the lens cap.  I want
> to know where
> they are all going.  Or are Leica lens caps (front and rear)
> the larval
> stage of AOL CD's that come in the mail about 3 times a week?
>
> rp johnson
>
>