Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/03

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Subject: [Leica] The Times Have Changed
From: bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)
Date: Sun Oct 3 16:23:46 2004
References: <A954B670-158E-11D9-94C0-000A95BC23AA@woh.rr.com>

On the other hand if he knew anything at all about Leicas he would have
known that the lenses could easily have resolved the finest details in the
nuclear power plants (or is that nucular?)

-dan c.

At 07:17 PM 03-10-04 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote:
>If you'd been using Leicas he wouldn't have bothered you because he'd
>have known instantly that anyone serious enough to be using Leica glass
>to shoot birds is indeed a serious photographer... :-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Rob McClure
>Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 6:51 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] The Times Have Changed
>
>
>Hello,
>
>Last evening I went with my wife to shoot photos of water birds and the 
>sunset at a public pier in Sandusky, Ohio.  While shooting, a security 
>guard approached us and started asking questions about length of the 
>lenses we were using (we had our Canon DSLR's and my wife had an 80 - 
>200 mounted).  He also seemed curious about what we were shooting.  I 
>wondered about his interest until I noticed that the Davis-Besse 
>nuclear power plant was visible on the horizon.  At that point the war 
>on terrorism became very real, even to us in the Midwest.  BTW, if we 
>were using our Leicas, I doubt we would have captured his attention.
>
>Rob McClure
>
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Replies: Reply from bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] The Times Have Changed)
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