I still have a bunch of Minox cameras that I am fond of too. I used each and every one of them. Now they're retired but I take them out and admire them now and then, remember the good times I had carrying them and making photos that people didn't believe came out of a submini.
But that's not collecting, that called "being too sentimental to sell and they're not worth a dime anymore anyway." ;-) My work cameras are just tools. Good tools, sometimes I get attached to them for the enjoyment of them, but mostly just tools that I buy and sell because I need them or no longer use them. While I admire their quality and excellence, I don't get attached. Things mean very little to me. Even nice things. I've owned lots of nice things over the years: I don't want them to own me. Godfrey On Mar 30, 2008, at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't collect. But I hold nice machinery in great esteem. So I've > kept an LX, a Spotmatic, a Spotmatic F, a Leica iiif RD and a few > other cameras. I also have my Vivitar 200/3.5 lens that earned me > many thousands of dollars and is held together with duct tape. They > all occupy a place of honor in a dust free, illuminated cabinet. > Why not? We don't abandon old friends. > Paul > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> On Mar 30, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Lucas Rijnders wrote: >> >>>>> Collectors are white pipe-smoking males in their fifties. The >>>>> rest are >>>>> retards. >>>> >>>> Does it matter what they put in their pipes? >>> >>> Certainly, but my english vocabulary lacks a good translations for >>> 'gesausde pijptabak'. >> >> Gesundheit! I hope you get over that. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
