Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear God Almighty, have mercy on us sinners. Folks, one of the finest of urban myths, and one propagated most mightily by the Silver Screen and the Idiot Eye, is that of the "discerning thief". For that matter, let us wander back a half-century to radio's "The Many Lies of Harry Lime", with Orson Welles playing to perfection the part of a thief and con artist who knew every comodity, every value, and every dodge. There may well be a FEW thieves, world-wide, who know what a Leica might be, but these are few, indeed. Most know the ones who advertise on the Tellie -- Nikon, Canon, Sony, und so weiter -- but they have just never heard of Rollei or Leica or Hasselblad. Hence, they won't steal these cameras, as they suspect they will have difficulty fencing such. They will take a Nikon P&S over a Leica IIIc K as they are just too damned unsophisticated to know the difference. Now, if Professor Moriarty were still around, perhaps this would be a matter for the geriatric Sherlock Holmes to handle from his bee-keeping hideout in Surrey. But, otherwise, fearing the red dot is perhaps the ultimate exercize in sheer, bloody paranoia. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!