Re: [Leica] buying and selling cameras

["Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>]

Hello Brian:

I am an amateur who has been a Leica user since 1958 when I acquired my
Leica IIIg.   I now have several LTM leicas and two M3s all of them users.

I am still learning and accumulating accessories.   Since, I have yet to
find the perfect long focus, 50mm and wide angle lens, I am still
purchasing.

I value this user group having restraints on commercialism and sales.
Accordingly, I suggest that Friday be retained for sales listings.

Problem solving and equipment planning take place all week long.  Perhaps,
WTB messages should be allowable at anytime.   This is user driven and gives
Luggers an opportunity to answer each others needs.

Roland Smith
- -----Original Message-----
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Friday, December 24, 1999 11:58 PM
Subject: [Leica] buying and selling cameras


>When I created the Leica Users mailing list 7 years ago, I carefully
>put the word "users" in its name, because I wanted a list that was
>centered around people who actually make photographs with Leica
>cameras, rather than around people who collect them and put them on
>shelves. While I have no animosity towards camera collectors, I do feel
>that, through the years, the primary value of the Leica-Users list has
>been that it is a forum for discussion among photographers and not
>just camera collectors.
>
>The current rule about limiting commercial messages to Fridays is not a
>rule that I made. There were a few years when I found it difficult to
>read the list every day, so I just sort of skimmed it and let anarchy
>rule. I don't know who proposed or announced that rule, but I like it.
>The reason that I like it is that it keeps the flavor of the list one
>of photography and not camera collecting.
>
>There is no sharp boundary between photography and camera collecting.
>You can't be a photographer without a camera, and once you hold a Leica
>you don't really want to let go of it; you have a one-camera
>collection. But my preference would be to continue the tradition of
>having one day a week for commercial messages. I don't think anybody
>will be booted off the list if they post such messages on other days,
>and in a global world it's never clear just what day it is anyhow (as I
>type this message it is still Friday where I live, but in most of the
>world it is Saturday).
>
>Brian Reid
>