Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]reason i beatup my camera equipments is that I useing it. it is my tool and tool suppose to be beat up :) >From: "Martin Howard" <marho@ikp.liu.se> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: "Leica Users Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] Why's your stuff all beat up? >Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 12:18:25 +0200 > > >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. > >-- >Martin Howard | "I may be fat, but you're ugly, and I >PhD student, HMI Grad. School | can always go on a diet." >email: marho@ikp.liu.se | -- Fridge magnet. >www: http://marho.ikp.liu.se/ +----------------------------------------- > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html No Archive _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html