Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Eric & Tudors
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:31:04 -0000

Pol Pot? Not bad at all. But how about different covers for different
audiences? Stalin? Mao? Goebels? (There's that GREAT Esie photo - perhaps
his best) I can see it now..

Leica Presents:
Evil on Film

;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> Eric Welch
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 3:31 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us;
> leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Eric & Tudors
>
>
> At 09:56 AM 11/10/99 +0000, B. D. Colen wrote:
> >No, I wouldn't turn it down. I'd accept it, sell it, buy a
> $300-400 watch
> >that would keep far better time and I'd use the difference
> to buy a third M
> >body or another lens. ;-)
>
> Me too!
>
> But as for the idea that Hasselblad, Mamiya and the rest
> offering student
> discounts, when I was a student in the mid-late-80s that
> didn't happen. I
> doubt it does today.
>
> And the picture of Che is appropriate, I recently read that
> in the college
> set he's becoming quite popular again. I think it's
> inappropriate because
> of who he was, but that's coming from a Yankee bias. Who's
> next? Pol Pot?
>
> Eric Welch
> Carlsbad, CA
>
http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

One should never generalize.