Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Clear Plastic Tape (now Camera destruction)
From: "Sanders, Scott" <ssanders@dailyherald.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:50:08 -0500

Ted,
   You're 100% correct, and much more eloquent than I am. That's what I was
trying to point out.
Scott

> ----------
> From: 	Ted Grant
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	Friday, October 12, 2001 10:31 AM
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	Re: [Leica] Clear Plastic Tape (now Camera destruction)
> 
> Scott Sanders wrote:  "as a news guy!" ;-)
> >>. However, the reason our equipment looks used is
> > precisely because we do use it everyday in frequently harsh conditions.
> When
> > the "news guys" were photographing people running for their lives in
> NYC,
> I
> > doubt if they were too worried about an extra scratch or two showing up
> on
> > their cameras. <<<<
> 
> Hi Scott,
> Well we're a breed apart and our cameras are merely tools of the trade, by
> the same token we don't beat the hell out of them just for something to
> do,
> simply because if we did our tools wouldn't work when we most need them.
> 
> "Right in the middle of an assignment!"
> 
> However, they do get nicked and dinged, it goes with the territory of a
> working professional and if we worried ourselves about many of the teensy
> marks that happened while we molly coddled the cameras for fear of getting
> it wet in the rain, we'd not be making our living using Leica's very long.
> 
> And on a news disaster, the last thing we're thinking about is whether
> we're
> getting dust on the gear or any more nicks or dings, as the pictures are
> all
> that counts and sometimes we do that at our peril!
> ted
> 
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> 
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