Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Even at my age, with rapidly diminishing memory etc, I recall that the primary interest of all my late teen acquaintances and I was, apparently strangely, not cameras. I think gasoline and prophylactics were amongst our chief purchases, or perhaps we wished they were. :-) I am sorry you had such a misspent youth. John Collier > From: Simon Stevens <simon@camera-craftsman.com> > > The other thing that strikes me is that a lot of us bought their first > Leicas when reltively young, ie, less than 20 - an age when camera > marketers seem to assume that we ought to value gimmickery above all > else.