Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/31
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That was one of the most revealing commentaries I have read on
Leicatiquitte.
Richard Clompus, OD
- -----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Cassidy [mailto:cassidy@netaxs.com]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 11:01 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] leicaetiquitte
Leica user A: Hey! holy smokes! is that the .72?
Leica user B: Yeah! Wow! is that a chrome finish?!
A: Yes it is!
B: That's really nice, i saw a chrome finish M3 the other day, on lombard
street, some guy with a cane.
A: oh, guy with a cane and an M3, that's harry. yeah. he's got a IIIf as
well.
B: I have a IIIc, with a 50mm elmar and a squidthorp multifinder.
A: I had a broken IIIc once. it wouldn't advance and the shutter wouldn't
fire.
B: That's nice. that's really great. How'd you get it?
A: I got it off ebay for $750.
B: Nice. So what kind of lens is that?
A: This is the 50mm protolux --
B: Oh, the f .75? i heard about that!
A: A yeah, it cost six thousand dollars.
B: Oh yeah, i got the 35 1.1 here, i paid like $3,250 for it. as you can
see, i've got it hooked up to a viseoflex rig.
A: Cool. yeah, that's great. so what are you shooting?
B: Nothing. I mean, i don't have film in it.
A: Yeah, me neither.
B: let me give you my card, here
A: ah, cool, you're on line, "leicadude212@hotmail.com" that's cool, i'm
"leicadude103@hotmail.com" i'll e-mail you.
B: yeah, yeah, i'll send you some pictures of this m2 i used to have.
A: woah, cool! i'll send you some scans of a leica brochure from 1972
that someone e-mailed me.
B: that would be tops! maybe we can get together, there's a nice tree
in my back yard, i'd like to see how your protolux compairs to my
summalux.
A: yeah, cool, i'll bring my 60x schnieder loupe.
B: that would be great! we could examine my m2 for microscratches.
A: great to meet you!
B: it was a real pleasure.
(then you may part company)
kc