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Subject: [Leica] happy birthday!
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Mar 24 08:25:49 2006

I figured you were still picking the slivers out! :-)


On 3/24/06 10:35 AM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:

> Yes, and all the times I cut my fingers on the glass plates :-*
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> Hey, Walt, happy birthday! There aren't many of you still around and
>> shooting who grew up on the original Kodak! :-)
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/24/06 10:15 AM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> Walt,
>>> I will take the bait.  Let us pretend that I Googled you.
>>> 
>>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY WALT!  May we have many more years of your ascerbic wit 
>>> and
>>> photography.
>>> 
>>> Don
>>> don.dory@gmail.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 3/24/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> Every time I see one of these "happy birthday" posts I get cheerful.
>>>> Thinking someone remembered Saturday is my birthday. Then go to find out
>>>> it's all about some damn lens. Oh, the heartbreak...... :'( :'( :'(
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Walt
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Steve Barbour wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>      
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>        
>>>>> 
>>>>>> a most timely message!  2006 is the 30th birthday of the f1 noctilux.
>>>>>> and i still trust it.
>>>>>>          
>>>>>> 
>>>>> and Rei... fwiw....
>>>>> 
>>>>> the photos from the Noctilux routinely appear to me better !! than I
>>>>> anticipated they would be...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure what that really means, but I can't say that about any
>>>>> other lens...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Steve
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>        
>>>>> 
>>>>>> only two M lenses come to my mind with this length of production were
>>>>>> the original 1961 35 'lux 1961-1995 (34 years) and the  2nd
>>>>>> 50 'lux 1962-1994 (32 years).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -rei
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mar25 01:18, A.H.Schmidt wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>          
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi, I am not quite sure, why anybody would want to worry about  any
>>>>>>> abberations of the Noctilux.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ....
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>          
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2. The lens has been around for some time now, and if  there where
>>>>>>> better F1 lens, then, I am quite sure,
>>>>>>> Leica would release a somewhat updated lens.
>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>>>>>> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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