Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] digital M redoux & digital M COOL Stuff! ;-)
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:17:57 -0400

on 7/22/01 7:53 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote:

> John Brownlow wrote:
>>>> ever tried reloading a Leica in the middle of a thunderstorm with no
> shelter  rangefinder fogged up so bad I couldn't focus<<<<
> 
> Jeeeeeesh,
> Not me. I've changed them in the middle of a howling blizzard and that's bad
> enough. There must have been some heavy duty humidity for the range finder
> to fog.
> ted

scenario -- Ed Mirvish's 87th birthday party

3000 of the scariest looking Canadians (and I mean SCARY) you have ever seen
in a total feeding frenzy for free cake and deodorant (no kidding...
deodorant... and they needed it).

then the light starts falling 1 stop every 30 seconds, and the sky just
totally opens... KABOOM... thunder, cats & dogs

everyone is running for cover... panic in the streets... only there IS no
cover... people are pulling tarpaulins over themselves, clothing themselves
in garbage sacks, whole families huddling under sodden cardboard boxes. It
is totally hilarious. I couldn't not photograph it even though I knew it was
bad news for the Leica. Anway by the time I have shot my roll of film there
is not one square inch of shelter left, I am totally soaked to the skin, and
it is raining harder than ever. But the pictures are still good... great
strings of balloons have come adrift and are blowing down the teeming
street... so I had no choice.

by this time the sunscreen has run into my eyes so I am scale focusing
anyway

now the rain slacks off a little and I notice that there's no second rf
image... presumably the mirror has fogged up inside (it's drying off now
with the back, lens and baseplate off)

luckily I had my T90 with me too so I carried on taking pix as the sun came
out, which was just as well as a small riot has now broken out over the
aforesaid balloons, with parents quite literally battling each other to get
them for their kids.

hmm just checked the Leica and still almost no rf image

:(

time for a trip to the shop I think


- -- 
John Brownlow

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com

ICQ: 109343205

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