Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey - no need to apologize. I can take a joke - and a second after I hit "send", I realized a slight tug on my pant leg (and it wasn't my Golden Retriever). But thanks for the consideration. Vick Martin Howard wrote: > Summicron1@aol.com jotted down the following: > > > And just how does this have anything to do with the quality of the lens? > > Really, did I miss something here? > > I wrote the initial "Leica QC" message to the LUG as a comment of the other > Leica QC threads that kept on popping up. I'm was getting pretty sick of > the simple-minded, counter-factual reasoning that goes on in these Leica QC > threads, so I wrote this as a humorous take on the whole situation. I'm > still convinced that Leica owners, by and large, spend waaaay too much time > fussing over their equipment instead of just dealing with any problems > (which anything manufactured has) and taking pictures. > > I mean, it's no more unreasonable to think that spending an absurd amount of > money on a camera/lens is going to make you immune to manufacturing/ > packaging/shipping/or any other kind of failure, than it is to > assume that spending the same absurd amount of money on a camera/lens is > going to make you a brilliant photographer. > > My apologies to Vick Ko: while the initial joke was made funnier by the fact > that he rose to the bait, I feel that I may have inadvertantly made him look > bad publicly. That was never my intention to anyone. > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | eVolving eMergent eThereal > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | eNthusiasm eVanescent ePhemeral > email: howard.390@osu.edu | eFficacious eMbryolic ePochal > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------