Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]THIS right here is one of the main reasons why I subscribe to the LUG. ;-) Feli On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 20:07, Mark Rabiner wrote: > The Oscar Barnack tie-ins throws me. > We are commemorating his birthday. > Not death day or day he invented the Leica. > > But he wasn't born in 1904 otherwise he would have been 9 when he came out > with the first UR prototype. Just like Mozart writing his first symphony! > Big deal! > > But Barnack was not a prodigy type from what I can tell. > > So what we are looking at is the 125th birthday of Barnack!! > Which would make that 1879. > Which by the way is a year not a day. > Nowhere can I find what his birthday was. Just year. > > Anyway I think 100 is a nice round number. > So is 200 > So is maybe 50. Your golden wedding anniversary. > Maybe on a stretch 150. > But 125? > > I've got to get out my pocket calculator to find out when Oscar was born. > > I think they should have come up with another nice number. > Which added or multiplied up to be 2004. > And was much ROUNDER! > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feli di Giorgio Visual Effects Supervisor "Hostage" creocollective - feli@creocollective.com