Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] damnit!
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:44:06 +0000

Kyle Cassidy is the William Wegman of the LUG - a comedian with a Leica!

At 12:56 PM 1/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>so i'm out shooting with my m6 yesterday, it's dark out, i'm shooting by
>street light ... i get to the end of a roll, wait! what's this! great shot
>coming up! two people walking towards me carrying a huge plastic cow
>upside down on their backs. i rewind my film, fast fast fast, remove the
>baseplate -- people and cow getting closer! -- remove old film, put in new
>film, close up baseplate -- wind click! wind click! wind click! -- they're
>on top of me! no time to meter, grab the shot! got it! wshew! off to shoot
>more -- about five shots later, i tilt the camera up to take a shot of a
>building spire, something cold flaps onto my cheek -- the backplate!
>damnit! i put the baseplate on without properly seating the backplate!
>@#$@#$! -- remove the -- what?! where the heck is my base plate! nothing
>but FILM here at the bottom of my camera (gloves on, you know, can't feel
>a thing) -- run back along the route i traversed (thanks for the snow, i
>know exactly where i went) -- ah ha! here's my baseplate, in three inches
>of snow. wipe it off on my shirt, put it back on the camera -- off again.
>
>where did those two guys with the plastic cow go?
>
>kc
>
>moral of the story? who knows.