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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] my m6 stands out in the crowd....
From: Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:22:33 +0300

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

>   so here's me this weekend, standing at an event w/ a bunch of EOS
> laden
> photo-j's. i've got my M6 around my neck, hands in my pockets,
> whistling a
> happy tune waiting for the magic to start when the photo-j standing
> next
> to me looks over and notices my leica.
>   "hey jim!" he yells over the crowd to another photographer.
>   jim looks over.
>   the first guy points to my leica.
>   "ha! ha! ha!" jim laughs very loudly. "Where'd you get that?" he
> wants
> to know, "a camera shop or a jewelry store?"
>   "ha! ha! ha!" laughs the first guy, "you shooting gold plated film?"

Okay, that does it!  I'm going to shoot an event with my Super Ikonta.
I'll have a few SLRs with long lenses dangling off my shoulder, just to
identify myself as "serious". Crapshooters.......

Bernard