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Subject: [Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Wed May 5 04:39:30 2004
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Recently I have had:
"Is that one of those Russian cameras" - from an assistant in a well-known
photographic store
and, more promisingly:
"That looks like one of those old-fashioned German cameras" (of my IIIf) from a
Canadian Yuppie living in London.
Douglas M. Sharp wrote:
> It doesn't work all that often in the UK either, a lot of people still
> think that Leicas
> were made in the GDR.
> Douglas
>
>
>> Sorry ... that doesn't always work, particularly with the young ones. I
>> took a picture of a young German student here in Oslo last year:
>>
>> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2003/2.html
>>
>> And he was sure my M2 was a Russian camera ... :(
>>
>> Daniel
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In reply to:
Message from george at imagist.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago)
Message from leowesson at charter.net (leo wesson) ([Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago)
Message from elaine at chaos.wustl.edu (Elaine -HFB- Ashton) ([Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago)
Message from daniel.ridings at muspro.uio.no (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago)
Message from DouglasMSharp at netscape.net (Douglas M. Sharp) ([Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago)