Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/22

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Subject: [Leica] Pensees (some new topics for discussion)
From: Dante A Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:53:06 -0400

Just a few thoughts that have been vaguely nagging me.  None of these is
calculated to start a flame war - so please don't.  I have a Halon
extinguisher handy.

Please change the subject line if you have an answer - and thanks for
the help with my M3 - I am sending it in for CLA and love it.

Questions presented:

1.      If Leicas have a theoretically unlimited life, even if digital
did not take over, would prices eventually come down on used gear anyway
- - it would seem that with an unlimited number of M6s to be produced,
there would be a glut.

2.    If Ebay, LUG and other information-enhancing activities did not
exist, would any of us keep lenses longer?  Many things you see come up
for sale on Fridays have been owned for 40 years.  I think in the old
days trade-ins were a wash, so people just kept stuff.

3.    If an M3 had no framelines, would the field be equivalent to a
40mm lens?

4.    Does a chrome M body with brass covers feel different from one
with alloy covers?

5.    Just what is Vulcanite and how do they apply it so evenly at the
factory?  Is it a liquid which is then embossed while on the parts?!

6.    Is it really easier to load an M3 than an M4?  Seems to be the
case - I like the pullout spool better than the poke-your-finger thingie
on the 4 and 6.

7.    When you touch an LHSA or Millenium M6, can you tell by touch that
the covers are CNC milled, or is that just a nasty thing someone said
here?

8.    Does anyone know why Leitz/Leica makes so many iterations of the
same 35/50 shade when there is no identifiable functional difference?  I
seem to be accumulating these at a scary pace.

Cheers

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Dante Stella
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dante