Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Quality Control
From: ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 12:46:13 -0700

Sonny,
Look out, I'm sure a bidding war is imminent!
t

> From: "SonC (Sonny Carter)" <sonc@sonc.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:59:59 -0500
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Quality Control
> 
> Walter, I appreciated your discussion, and it probably WAS Cassidy
> brutalizing his camera.  He's known to do such things.
> 
> I just wanted to introduce my new Commemorative Leica just in time for
> the Holiday Season, (What Holiday?, Pick One, everyday is a Holiday
> with a SonC Special edition Leica!)
> 
> Take a look here!
> 
> http://www.sonc.com/allnew.htm
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter S Delesandri" <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Cc: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 8:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Quality Control
> 
> 
>>> Lenses were not
>>>> designed to be looked at with magnifiers. They were designed to
> take
>>>> pictures with.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Where EVER did you get such a silly idea? ;-)
>>> 
>>> B. D.
>>> --
>> B.D., this is a problem I've seen cropping up again in recent
> years.....in the
>> 70s and 80s, Leicas were used little...they were kept in velveteen
> bags in a
>> safe WHERE THEY BELONG....as investments...."users" were old men in
> their
>> 60s and 70s, and since their equipments' value had already been
> destroyed by
>> meter marks, cleaning marks, etc, we didn't worry about it...  All
> the
>> EXC or better gear was bought by resellers from widows of doctors
> and lawyers,
>> and sold to PROPER collectors, those with beards, BMWs and
> safes...folks who
>> could properly care for it.
>> 
>> However, I've noticed in the last few years some younger punks have
> been
>> seen with Leicas, late model clean ones that could some day be
> valuable...HORRORS...and
>> they're SHOOTING WITH THEM!!!--there's some subversive movement
> here, I think...
>> One "artsy" looking fellow was even seen with an M and lens SITTING
> ON A TABLE
>> in a coffee shop here in town...just sitting there, unprotected, no
> E/R case,
>> no filter or lens cap, bent up hood (!!!)....and he was talking,
> drinking coffee
>> and smoking a cigarette....all with the camera sitting there
> unprotected, hardly
>> receiving any reverence at all...I thought about taking it away from
> him, but
>> it was already worthless, except maybe as a parts camera, and even
> then you'd wonder
>> about the condition of the gears/etc...after MANY rolls of film (at
> LEAST 20 rolls
>> had been through it, I'm sure)--so I just walked out in disgust (he
> was also bigger
>> and younger than me, with a leather jacket, and I'd already had one
> ass-whipping
>> that day)
>> 
>> I've heard that their leader is named Kyle or something, a KNOWN
> trouble-maker,
>> one of them Gen-X "computer types"...the LUG might have to enlist
> the help of the
>> LHSA to root out and rectify the problem---before it becomes wide
> spread....if not
>> stopped, these folks could accidentally find an M4 or something at
> an estate
>> sale and then they
>> MIGHT have it CLA'd, thereby destroying the mandatory "L" seal, and
> rendering it
>> worthless...this trend must end, we must band together and "nip it
> in the bud"...
>> 
>> Please help us with donations if you're too damn old to
>> take up arms in this matter,
>> Sincerely,
>> Walt in Denton, Tx.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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