Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quoth the Vick Ko : > Please all, keep telling me to "go out and shoot photos", > "historically the > KE-7A is worth the same as a share of <name your defunct company - > Bre-X, > NORTEL, ...>" The question is this: are you a shooter, or are you just a Leica collector? All it takes to buy a KE-7A, or an Ein Stuck, or any of the other dozens of collectibles the Solms gnomes make whenever they get a whim, is that you have the right amount of spare cash. Someone will sell one to you quite without caring whether you have a clue what it is or why it's special. You have money, and that's all that matters. But at the end of the day you don't dare use it because it might get scratched or banged up the way cameras do when they belong to real shooters - y'know, people who actually understand and appreciate why Mr. E. Leitz and Mr. O. Barnack built the things, folks who've EARNED Leicas, rather than just BOUGHT them. For the cost of that kit you can buy yourself lots of film and lab work, or time on the streets of wherever with camera in hand, doing what Leicas are meant to do... or you can buy yourself an expensive paperweight that'll have to be dusted and secured and insured and all that crap... Leave that one to somebody with lotsa money and no eye, get yourself a brick of B&W of your preferred flavor and those beater M's you've had since you could scrounge them, and get your arse out on the street where it belongs. You're wasting daylight. -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request