Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica sighting - odd
From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpix@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 09:24:39 +0000

Could it be that somebody said "There's a really strange guy comes in here 
carrying a real old-fashioned camera called a Leica. Why don't you come onto 
him a little and say you like old cameras. It would really make his day"?

Gerry
www.gwpics.com


>From: Robert Browne <rbrowne@iopener.net>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Leica sighting - odd
>Date: Sat,  5 Jan 2002 22:16:11 -0800
>
>A strange but true story:
>
>I carry my old Leica III with me everywhere and this past week happened to 
>stop in at
>three separate coffee establishments in Santa Monica. The unusual thing was 
>that at
>all three places, the people who served me recognised the camera I was 
>carrying as a
>Leica. And they were all women. All three mentioned their preference for 
>the older
>manual style camera over the newer automated brands. And they like the way 
>the old
>Leicas look.
>
>My question is this: Is there a secret society of women baristas who are 
>Leica LTM
>aficionados that we have not heard about?
>
>Robert
>
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