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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: doctors and lawyers
From: "Don" <don.ro@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:23:36 -0600
References: <B89AE5E1.14C5%bcaldwell51@earthlink.net>

Hello, Bryan:

I got my first Leica (an M-3) seven years before I got my bar card.

Don Rorschach


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From: "Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell51@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] re: doctors and lawyers


> I'm a lawyer and a Leica owner - but I got my first Leica about 13
years
> before I got my bar card.
>
> Bryan Caldwell
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2/21/02 1:13 PM, "Ernest Nitka" <enitka@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Were to begin?
> > My Name is  Ernie - I use Leicas and I'm a DOCTOR! ( read in the
tone of a
> > 12 step program)
> >
> > It's inherited as my father, a physician infected me with the LAS
( Lecia
> > acqusition syndrome).  He used to go out of his way to keep from
telling car
> > salesmen that he was was a doctor - "they'll just abuse you ".  I
have long
> > ago given up on that as I don't think the salesmen care - if your in
the BMW
> > showroom you are rich by definition and really who cares if you made
your $
> > in the stock market, in construction etc.
> >
> > I don't know who said much of the market are MD and lawyers who know
nothing
> > of the mechanical nature of the Leica.  I would challenge you on
this one -
> > I think that amongst my friends most go for the Nikon F5 or Canon
equivalent
> > - few if any even know about the leica. Seriously.  If that person
is trying
> > to say that some people own the leica simply for the name that's
probably
> > true but then so is it true for many other camera brands.
> >
> > Anyway - Any of the doctors, lawyers, dentist care to add their name
to this
> > new Survey.
> >
> > Ernie 'in rehab but it ain't working' Nitka
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/21/02 3:30 PM, "Kyle Cassidy" <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>>> Much of Leicas market is Doctors and Lawyers.. Who buy the name
and
> >>>> could care less if its mechanical..
> >>>
> >>> is this literally true, or is "Doctors and Lawyers" a figure of
speech for
> >>> "well-heeled amateur photographers?"  i'd be interested in seeing
any
> >>> demographic information about the new leica buyer.  i did once buy
a new
> >>> leica.
> >>
> >> i think it's anticdotal evidence based on lug postings. it
ceritanly seems
> >> viable to me. they both seem to run thicker than normal around
here. or
> >> maybe they just post more than the "well-heeled" non doctor and
lawyer
> >> amature photographers on the list. i'd need a grant from the NEH to
come up
> >> with more conclusive data.
> >>
> >> kc
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