Re: [Leica] Leica and Thieves

[Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>]

And.....if a thief is knowledgable about Leicas, and wants to steal one,
he/she won't be fooled by the absence of a red dot.  I can certainly
recognize a Leica from a distance without seeing the red dot.   I'm sure a
thief can as well.

Dan C.

At 08:28 PM 19-11-00 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>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
>
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