[Leica] M7 base plate plastic! My Black Paint is Better than Yours

[saganicc at MSKCC.ORG (Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics)]

Are we married to the same person? Damn.

Chris Saganich

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From: lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted Grant
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:19 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 base plate plastic! My Black Paint is Better than Yours

B. D. Colen  offered:
> I have to say the before joining this list any time I bought a piece of
> new camera equipment, whatever the brand, while I was still in the store
> I'd take it out of the box, pull off that annoying plastic bottom plate
> condom, gather up all the booklets and mail in crap other than the
> english instruction manual - if it was a camera body or flash - and the
> warranty, and hand all the garbage over the sales person and ask him to
> toss it for me. <<<<<<

Hi B. D.,
I do the same thing, only for a different reason. ;-)

This applied to Leica stuff only. Then I'd put the camera or lens in the
equipment shoulder bag and go home so I could get it in the house without
"she who must be obeyed" knowing I'd got a new piece of gear. ;-)

Eventually it would come out of the bag in her presence, sometimes a couple
of weeks later after used on an assignment or two. I'd always hope she'd not
notice. :-)  But dang it never worked, maybe once or twice. But she'd say,
........"Oh I haven't seen that before, when did that arrive?"

Then it would start. ;-)  Me in the glue again for buying something it seems
in her words  ...... "you don't need that! How much better are your pictures
going to be with that?" And it would go on seemed like never ending, as
she's relentless when it comes to ragging me for buying stuff. :-) leica
stuff that is. :-)

I've tried every means possible to get gear past her with no avail, nothing
works. ;-) So that's why I dump all the boxes and paper work in the store
and even that doesn't help.

ted


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