RE: [Leica] No CLICK! Ker-plunk whiiiiirrr

[BOB KRAMER <BobKramer@COOPERCARRY.com>]

Hi Mike,

Yes, it is very cool using the M3!  A certain retro elegance which belies
the excellent functionality.  I don't think anyone took the camera seriously
(which makes it even *more* fun to use).  Obviously not the case when I was
using the F3!

And police power and civil liberty issues aside, I intuitively took the most
suggested option in the situation... I kissed the cop's ass from the get-go!
Seemed like the prudent approach at the time.  We ended up with him telling
me that the good folks of Fitchburg actually *did* become more friendly
later in the morning (although I didn't hang around to find out)!

Oh yes.  You are correct, I was not using a flash.  Not that I never use a
flash with my M3.  I even had Sherry Krauter change out the flash sync to
the modern connection just so when I wanted to use flash, it wouldn't be a
hassle.  But when I am in my Street Mode <vbg>, the flash stays at home.

Bob Kramer
Atlanta, GA

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
> Subject: [Leica] No CLICK! Ker-plunk whiiiiirrr
> 
> >>>And NOBODY notices a thing!  Filled with courage at this revelation I
> take more photos, but even bolder this time.  Snapping photos of people
> less than three feet away.  And still nobody notices!  So I mentioned
> this to my wife and she asked if I had even taken a photo yet since she
> didn't hear a thing<<<
> 
> Bob,
> Isn't that the coolest? That's actually happened to me too--taking
> pictures right in peoples' faces and them not paying the slightest bit
> of attention, and then not realizing it after the fact. I did half a
> roll of a girlfriend's grandmother once, and half an hour later she
> happened to notice me playing with the camera and she said, "Now, you're
> not going to take a picture of me, are you?" And I was sitting right
> next to her on a couch.
> 
> No CLICK! Ker-plunk Whiiiiiiirrrrr! and no twinkie light, I guess.
> 
> - --Mike
> 
>