Its obviously market day in Fort William, (50miles from where I live) as in the last 10 minutes at least 10 landrovers with livestock trailers have gone past the end of my drive, ranging from an old 90 to brand new double cab 110. Good to see people are still using LR's and not succumbing to the japaneese double cabs.
Andrew
Same down in Galloway, where I live - a good tenth or more of all cars you see about the place seem to be Landies.
Which is nice.
Why is a Land Rover like a Leica camera?
Answer: they are expensive to buy, but they can keep on going.
If you look in this week's Amateur Photographer, you'll find a preview of the new Leica M8, a digital camera that just carries on from the M7, and will work with existing Leica lenses.
Company history doesn't really guarantee the future, but Leica, and Land Rover, are better long-term bets than most.
IT'S IETHER IN YOU OR ITS NOT... AN AVEERAGE OF 25,000 ARE SOLD AROUND THE WORLD EVERY YEAR BRAND NEW........ :)
Torak wrote:
Visit the main car park in Buxton on a Saturday afternoon - the Discoveries out number the oppositon 2 to 1, never mind the Defenders etc.
8 or 9 years ago they would almost all have been Jap (Dihatsu mostly).Richard
There are a few jap double cabs around, but they seem to be owned by people who don't really need them... and are very shiney :-)
I know one guy has a back yard (rather large as he has a 4000 acre estate) full of old Merc G-wagons, brilliant bits of kit, but are too expensive to repair. - He's the one with a new 110 double cab.
His back yard is incredible, full of old argocats (wheeled and tracked), tracked dumpers, numerous boats, mini-diggers, most no longer working...
Unfotunatly I don't know him well enough to go picking at the collection
Andrew
Yeuck, don't make that comparison please, most leica owners I've met are like mac owners. I went to goodwood revival some years ago and some chap was there with a stunning girlfriend, who was bored to tears by him waffling on about the balance of his leica and how it feels perfect in the hand etc etc, don't recall him taking any pictures with it.
Mind you after the reaction I've had on a few occasions turning up to a landy-dominated event in the pinzgauer, perhaps you're right ;-)
|| Yeuck, don't make that comparison please, most leica owners I've met || are like mac owners. I went to goodwood revival some years ago and || some chap was there with a stunning girlfriend, who was bored to || tears by him waffling on about the balance of his leica and how it || feels perfect in the hand etc etc, don't recall him taking any || pictures with it.
You missed one there! "Hi, would you like to come for a drink - I guarantee not to talk about cameras ..."
A perfect case for ...
Hello
||| You missed one there! "Hi, would you like to come for a drink - I ||| guarantee ||| not to talk about cameras ..." || || A perfect case for ... || || Hello
:-)
The ultimate reliable camera so far as I am concerned is the old Pentax K
1000, and there are more lenses available for Pentax systems than ever were or will be to precios Leica users.|| The ultimate reliable camera so far as I am concerned is the old || Pentax K 1000, and there are more lenses available for Pentax || systems than ever were or will be to precios Leica users.
Arrrrrgh! Yes. Why ever did I get rid of mine for a more "up to date" model?
I still have a good K1000 with manual and an older Spotmatic F. My first "proper" camera was a K1000. I wish someone would design a digital back for them.....
Mine's an Olympus OM-2 SP with various bits of kit, including some macro bellows, one of the few manufacturers to make macro bellows for
35mm kit due to their strong presence in the scientific photography market.I used to have a Canon EOS3 with various prime lenses and a pro zoom lens, but given the gear was worth about £3K I could never use it comfortably so flogged it all and went back to the old gear!
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