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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: New Hexar RF? Don't wake me
From: "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith@dcc.edu>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 16:43:31 -0500
References: <002401c3287d$a7ed0fa0$0316fea9@ccasony01>

I hear ya. And my wife doesn't know that a 35/1.2 Nokton is on its way to 
our house, to arrive on Wednesday. I haven't figured out how I'm going to 
explain that one. For a while, she thought all of these were one camera 
(after all, who needs more than one camera and lens).

Jeffery


At 05:02 PM 6/1/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>And.... don't wake me because I have finally hit the wall with Leica 
>/Camera Acquisition Syndrome - I no longer have $, room or my wife's 
>patience to buy another shred of camera equipment !!
>
>BTW just started watching the Robt. Capa documentary as I had it 
>recorded.  I'm not sure this was commented on before but so far  ( 2/3 
>done) I found it interesting if not a little romantic about the 
>non-fascist side of the war that Capa and other's participated in .  My 
>early reading of the war was that it is too simplistic and probably wrong 
>to say the facists were the bad guys ( no doubt they were) and that the 
>other side were good folks - they too were pawns in many instances of the 
>communsits in the Kremlin.   Anyway I'm enjoying the photography portions.
>
>ernie
>On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 04:37 PM, bdcolen wrote:
>
>>I love this...First, based on a net-based flash come-on that shows
>>essentially nothing, a bunch of people decide that Konica is releasing
>>an interchangeable lens, M-mount, high-res, digital rangefinder camera.
>>
>>When some folks point out that it's impossible to tell from the little
>>flash tease what Konica is going to announce, people turn around and
>>say, oh, it's a point and shoot and I don't want it.
>>
>>I love it.
>>
>>Wake me on the 6th when we know what Konica's announced.;-)
>
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Replies: Reply from "Gary Williams" <nasmformyzombie@mindspring.com> (Re: [Leica] OT: New Hexar RF? Don't wake me)
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