RE: [Leica] Why's your stuff all beat up?

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Hey, Martin. Do me a favor - name ONE person, whose equipment you have
actually seen - photos of the equipment count - who "can buy a new Leica M6,
use it for ten years as a professional, do documentary in hazardous chemical
plants, do reportage in a Saharan sandstorm, and travel the globe, and yet
when the time comes to sell it, it looks like it never left the factory."
;-)

B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Martin
Howard
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:18 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Why's your stuff all beat up?



It appears as though one of the dimensions along which you can order the
population of the world is whether they leave their mark on the stuff they
own or not.  Some people can buy a new Leica M6, use it for ten years as a
professional, do documentary in hazardous chemical plants, do reportage in a
Saharan sandstorm, and travel the globe, and yet when the time comes to sell
it, it looks like it never left the factory.

Then, there are people like me: If I bought that camera, I'd put more marks
on it in the first *day* of ownership than it had accumulated in those ten
years.  And that's if I'm *careful*.

It's not that I'm normally careless or that the previous owner necessarily
babied his/her equipment.  It's just that some of us have stronger entropy
fields than others.

M.

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