Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul-- I know of this illness.... it causes you to hide beautiful camera equipment in dark closets while your wife is home... then when she leaves you take beautiful pictures... and can't tell her what camera you used... then you try to soft sell her on the "idea" of purchasing a Leica... to which she says: "Why, the pictures you're taking know are beautiful!" You have hung yourself.... Bob Keene (who has bought & sold an M4-P and now owns an M6...and the wife doesn't know...yet.) > >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:17:40 +0100 >From: "Paul Bolam" <Paul@bolam67.freeserve.co.uk> >Subject: [Leica] M2 contrition > >I have an admission to make, I've just bought an M2 body to celebrate the >birth of our newborn son! >N.B. I made sure it was manufactured in the year of my birth (serial number >93109x). > >Is this a serious crime - in that I haven't told the wife about buying this >OR the recent purchase of the secondhand M6 + noctilux? > >Is there salvation for me or am I condemned to celebrate life's good >fortunes with sentimental purchases? I have never owned Leica gear in the >past and this is our first child. > >Think I'm suffering from the Leica bug - how long do the symptoms last? > >Yours contritely, >Paul. > >------------------------------