Re: [Leica] UV filter now slip covers

[drodgers@nextlink.com]

Richard

>>Isn't that what plastic surgeons are for-to repair all the damage done by
those slip covers?

Richard Wasserman whose grandmother had them-yuck!<<

My great aunt had them (plastic covers over the fine furniture). You don't
see them all that often anymore. Interestingly enough with the invention of
new more durable fabrics, plastic furniture covers went by the weightside
along the same lines as buggy whips and wagon wheels. Also, with more
durable fabrics came longer lasting furniture, and consequently fewer sales
of new furniture. This required mass layoffs of furniture salesmen. Many of
furniture salesmen -- who were taught to sell the plastic covers as add on
items -- were retrained to be camera store salesman. Consequently,  the
invention of durable fabrics, for anyone who is curious, is the real reason
we have UV filters today.

Dave