Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Recent observations
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@bayarea.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 06:35:44 -0700

>One swallow doth not make spring.  This morning as I walked down the street
>with an M6 around my neck, a young woman sitting at an outdoor table with an
>espresso commented on it by saying: "Nice camera." -- with the word "nice"
>said very slowly.
>
>Now she was pretty and in her 20's... I am 58, short, fat, and bald.  I
>believe that she REALLY WAS interested in the camera; don't you?

But fantasy survives anyway, right? ]'-)

I had a similar thing happen at a flea market the first time I went out 
shooting with the CL. I was taking a photograph of a table of fairly 
interesting stuff and struck up a conversation with the vendor, a rather 
attractive young woman in her 20s. She sees my camera... "Oh, a Leica! 
Thank you for taking pictures with a Leica!"

Like something out of the X-Files ... "They are out there!" 
Now why didn't I meet any of them when I was in my 20s? 

Godfrey