Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You REALLY need a night out of the house! . . . with a lady. :-) Skip At 3/31/00 11:00 AM -0500, you wrote: >javier, that is definately a SERIOUS breech of leica etiquitte. i've >notified solms and they are sending you a box, please pack your M6 snugly >inside and return it for redistribution. the proper confrontation is this: > >(leica user A walking along, carrying an m6 and wistling "strangers in the >night" comes across leica user B walking in the opposite direction >whistling something off of "Plastic Surgery Disasters" also carrying an >M6) > >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) - ----------------------------------------------- Skip Williams Westfield, NJ skipwilliams@pobox.com http://www.skipwilliams.com - -----------------------------------------------