Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kevin, You have a great gift for story teller. Keep the M4-P. Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Khoffberg [mailto:khoffberg@email.msn.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 8:21 AM To: 'LUG' Subject: [Leica] Warning to Noctilux owners; disruptions in the time space continuum. The other day I was hanging around with a friend of mine bench racing, lying about our various exploits, and talking photo gear. Low and behold, he was a Leica shooter and had recently acquired a Noctilux. After a little while he took my outside with M body and Noctilux in tow. "Watch this" he said as he took the Noctilux off the camera body. Almost before I could say something, he held the lens up at what I guessed to be about 22.5 degrees and began to rapidly rotate the aperture ring through it's full range of motion. As I choked back a scream he gradually increased the rate of rotation. I knew it was going to happen but no, he wouldn't listen. And then it did. Right before my eyes the time space continuum warped. There was this great ripping sound and suddenly, like you were looking through water, there was the famous lost squadron. Time and again Noctilux owners have been warned about these sorts of shenanigans. It turns out he'd done this before so no telling who's running around here from another time dimension. Unfortunately, this time the results were cataclysmic. As the time warp began to close it caught my friend by the foot. I was frozen with indecision. Should I save the lens or my friend? As I reached for the Noctilux the warp window closed and they were both gone. So the question is, should I tell his wife or just keep the M4-P? Cheers Kevin Hoffberg