At 09:08 PM 9/1/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>On 1 Sep 98, at 21:53, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> Yours is a true tale of woe, but there may be a happy ending. It's going to
>> depend more on how you look at it though. Would a minty OM2 be worth
>> $360AU, which is what you'd have in it after repair and, I assume, CLA.
>> Quite possibly. If you got good use from such a camera for 10 years or
>> perhaps much more, would it ease the pain of a risk that didn't quite pay
>> off? Very probably.
>>
>> If you buy something you can eventually use and you use it for a long
>> enough time, eventually it doesn't owe you anything anymore.
>>
>This is a very good way of looking at things, and I agree with the
>sentiment. But what happens when keep something so long, *you*
>start to owe *it*? ;-) I'm getting to that point with my car, and even
>my OM-10... :-)
>
>
>Shawn & Janis Wright
Shawn,
I think that when that happens, you are truly a fortunate man. (I'm a VW
guy too -- '85 Jetta GL ... Then there's the '74 BMW 2002 ... Sigh)
Joel
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