Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:24:39 -0400, Martin Howard wrote: Let me second Martin: Walther Benser wrote in his book "My Life with Leica": When he went out to take some photographs one of the first times with a Leica I, as a Leitz apprentice and laid the camera down to the street in order to load a new film, he suddenly heard a woman blowing him up: "Are you crazy? What do you think putting a Leica in the dirt regardlessly?" (Original German: " Was denken Sie sich eigentlich dabei, Ihre Leica einfach in den Dreck zu legen? Sie sind wohl nicht ganz bei Trost?") He turned around and recognized the wife of the sales director of Leitz. >Brougham jotted down the following: > > >> And...when we stopped for supper, my Leica--which heretofore has known >> nothing but coddling inside a padded bag and being hand held without >> dangling from a strap--rested ON THE FLOOR. The floor! Under my >> chair. > >Ugh! Please. Leica's deserve a place on the table. They are aesthetically >pleasing things that add to the sensory experience of a good meal. They >should be given a prominent place in the centre of a table. They also like >company: The best method is for three or four photographers to meet, plonk >all their Leicas in the middle of the table and then order. > >Besides, it's a lot safer than sticking it under a chair on the floor, where >any number of four-legged animals can slobber all over it. > >M. > >-- >Martin Howard | "We can't make mistakes like that on our >Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | own. We need computers to help us." >email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- A pharmacologist on computerization >www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +------------------------------------------- > >