Many people on this list feel about a camera as others might feel about a firearm, a fine machine tool (like a Dean Smith and Grace tool-room lathe, or even a Myford Super 7), an automobile, a fly rod, a quiver of Wilson Staff clubs or other well made 'feely' things with which we might occupy our work or leisure time.
Feel and appearance sometimes become more important than function. Its a *bad* thing to have a black camera body with a chrome lens and vice versa. But, the lens will take the same picture on the black body despite the chrome - as long as it works. So why do we care? I have on my table a rebuilt (by DW) Russian Compound Microscope. Its thirty years old - at least - and is a pretty rough piece of equipment. However it works and as I use it each day - tripping down memory lane as I go along* - its the microscopy and not the instrument that absorbs my attention. The offensive engineering has faded into the background. Don * Its been twenty, or more, years since I did any light microscopy. _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002
