Re: [Leica] re clear plastic tape

["Mark Ritter" <mritter@austin.rr.com>]

Thanks for such a helpful answer to my original question.

Mark

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From: "Adi Soon" <adisoon@pacific.net.sg>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] re clear plastic tape


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> Mark's original post and the subsequent ones have made me shake my head in
> despair. Had they come at another time I would not have felt the need to
> respond. However recent experiences have underlined my need to shake some
> sense into these people.
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> Try living here in Asia and see the heights of depravity to which people
> take Leica fondling. In Singapore and Malaysia where I live, every other
> Leica owner I know (with the exception of 1 other) keeps their Leica
> equipment in a dry-box away from the light. Further, this is a place where
> old men gather at camera shops in the Peninsula Plaza area (in Singapore)
> to show each other photo albums of their prized Leica cameras.
>
> I know only a minuscule number of people actually use the stuff. Every
time
> I take out my M6, and there are such types around, I am cautioned to be
> careful, or to put the thing away and use something expendable instead,
> like a Nikon or a Pentax. With the mere mention of my owning of a titanium
> M6, I am told of its inherent collectivity and the need the preserve it
for
> the future. Sometimes inquires are made as to the nature of my storage
> facilities. What I do not afterwards reveal, (seeing that all discussions
> of taking pictures are off) is that my titanium M6 is not in show room
> condition anymore. In fact it has accompanied me to many places and has
had
> hundreds of rolls of film through it. I would have been chastised had I
> brought it out and words of pity and regret would fill the room.
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> I know one other guy who has every single "star" lens in the Leica
line-up.
> His purchases are dictated by the reputations of these lenses gleaned
> mostly from the above mentioned old men and also from a place like this,
> the LUG. He makes it a point to buy them, keeping them in their original
> box and packaging after every fondling session. He says he's a
> photographer, but his "archives" amount to some 20 or so rolls of
> negatives, pictures mostly of test targets and his experiments to justify
> Leica quality.
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> The question in the end is why this is so? We all know the arguments.
> "Leicas are bad investments" etc etc. But why do they still persist?
This
> is the single most unfathomable thing I can ask about the Leica myth.
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> I have learnt to deal with such irritation.
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> Let those who want to stick protective stickers on their base-plates.
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> Let those who want to keep their Leicas dent-free.
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> I will just walk away quickly, they were probably not in it for the
> photography anyway.
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> Adi
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