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[eenitka@ibm.net]

Just as I was about to send email saying how pleasant the list had become.....
Anyway just a silly email to refocus on the pleasures to be had with a Leica Camera:

Went to our local art fair and took along my M4 ( Curt Miller if you are here - this
used to be YOUR M4)- I took one light meter reading at the beginning of the excursion
and it was truly a joy to wonder from booth to booth taking pictures - almost point
and shoot.  I had an older gentleman come up to me and ask if this was a Leica!  We 
had a pleasant time discussing the evils of auto everything cameras.  I was taking a 
pic of an unusual brick design on one of the older buildings here in Syracuse and a 
rather weathered old woman came up and asked what I was up to " why are you taking 
pictures of such an old building"  Taken off gaurd I forgot to ask If I could take her 
picture!!   The next day it was off to the antique fair for more of the same - alas no 
antique cameras of interest ( last year a nice baby Rollei which I DIDN'T snap up).  
thought someone would ask about my antique but this didn't happen.  It was fun to 
wander around the tents taking pictures of other peoples junk.  Used XP-2 and HP5+ and 
all the pics were decently exposed.  The only extravagance that I used was a newly 
acquired M grip and wrist strap that really made holding the camera and browsing easy.

ernie nitka