Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Fixing up an older M camera in so-so condition is not the cheapest or most > rational way to go, but since when did reason have anything to do with it YES!! I agree 100%. I could not count the old clunkers that I have bought and then fixed up and gotten years of use out of them. We live in a very disposable society and it is amazing what you can get for not much money. To me there is a certain panache to an old beat-up Alfa Romeo, Beemer, Nikon or M3. > I once had the chance to buy a Ferrari 308GTB kinda cheap; no doubt a real > fix-er-upper, though potentially very cool. But how would I ever master > black and white printing if I kept getting sidetracked into other hobbies! Damn the torpedoes! Full-speed ahead! Jeff you should have bought that Ferrari. > > Jeff Segawa > NO ARCHIVE > > On 2001.02.15 21:06:25 -0700 Juan J. Buhler wrote: >> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Steve LeHuray wrote: >> >> > Personnaly this is the kind of project I love, saving an old camera, or >> car >> > from the junkyard. Buy cheap, sink a little love and attention into >> that M3, >> > then shoot, shoot, shoot without even thinking about this as an >> investment. >> >> Thanks Steve, I can agree with that. I think I'll go for it. > >