Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul Chefurka wrote: > > Hey, B.D. - don't get all dyspeptic, it was just a visual image joke. > > OK, how about: > > Leica could reissue the IIc, package it with a linked set of 6 double-shoe adapters, a set of reissued finders (including an Imarect) and a mix of new and refurbished LTM lenses - all in an ebony, velvet-lined box with a chinese-puzzle lock. They could call it the Rube Goldberg Commemorative Edition. > > Oh wait, no they couldn't - they don't have enough of a sense of humour. I'd bet Kobayashi does, though... > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 3:17 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] For Sale Bessa-T Viewfinder Solution > > Tom Schofield wrote: > > > > You can sell it in a package with the Bessa-T, winder, six lenses and 6 > > finders, and label it the Bessa-RG, for the Rube Goldberg edition! > > > > Tom > > > > Sorry again! > > Doesn't anyone realize that you could make all these same jokes at the > expense of people who can only afford to buy old Leica screw mount > bodies, or those who own modern equipment but also enjoy shooting with > the old equipment. The only difference here is that the people who end > up with the new Bessa will have a top shutter speed of 1/2000, flash > sync at 1/125th - higher speed of course than a Leica M, to say nothing > of the majority of screw mounts, which lack sync entirely - etc. etc. > etc. > > Nobody is saying anyone has to buy these cameras. I doubt seriously that > I ever will. But this nonsense about complaining about the > rangefinder/viewfinder arrangement, and jokes about needing four hands, > etc. etc. - Why not put the energy into changing shutter speeds on the > old LTMs with their 'fast speeds on the top,low speeds on the front' > arragement, while you squint through the little split > viewfinder/rangefinder window, struggle to load the camera with its > archaic loading system, twist the winding nob to advance the film, and > wonder when your vulcanite is going to finally fall off? > > B. D. Okay, it's amusing. I have to say I wasn't so mucn responding to your Rube Goldberg joke as the entire line of trashing...oh hell, never mind....;-) B. D.