Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This whole line of logic is amusing. For $99.999% of the world, the price of an M6 is more expensive than a 72 or 250 is to many members of this list. To put this into more perspective, the price of a 250 to Bill Gates is much much less than the price of a pack of film to me (haven't done the math but I suspect it is true :-) Jonathan Borden > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John > Collier > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 10:41 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Spin the ring > > > Ok! How about a Leica 250 Reporter? > > John Collier > > > Roger Beamon wrote: > >> > >> On 23 Dec 99, John Collier wrote, at least in part: > >> > >> <snip> > >> > >>> Does anyone have a Leica 72 they would not mind lending me so I > >>> can try this? > >> > >> Though a devotee of the user school, the 72 might be an > >> exception for me. If I had a 72, I not only wouldn't lend it to > >> anyone, but I wouldn't be using it myself. > >> > >> Even my ideology has limits! :-) > >> > >> -- > >> Roger > Then Mark wrote: > > I'm a half frame advocate but no one else responds to it. A > half frame Leica > > is > > due I say. A half frame anything is due I say. Tab grain films > have made half > > frame the size which is smart I say. > > But a Lieca 72 is worth too much money. They would throw you in > the looney bin > > if someone saw you out with one. But some guy was saying > something about some > > guy who was out with a Platinum so who knows? > > Mark Rabiner >