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Subject: [Leica] Boy meets Leica, Boy Looses Leica, Boy gets Leica back
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue Oct 10 16:14:45 2006
References: <C1517B3B.302CF%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,

If you are that close to the approach and departure routes to JFK, you 
should pick up a cheap scanner at the local pawn shop, a scanner that covers 
the aircraft band from about 118 to 136MHz, and listen in on what goes on 
above you.  Perhaps I am biased because I once flew a lot, but I find such 
monitoring to be very relaxing when there is nothing better to take up my 
time.  You might even find one that covers the local police band as well. 
That would bring back images of Weegee out doing his thing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:30 PM
Subject: [Leica] Boy meets Leica, Boy Looses Leica, Boy gets Leica back


> Fairytales are great but Ah romance!
> The guy at the information booth in the Frankfurt Airport dragged me over 
> to
> the phone booth and I plied him with strange coins as he made call after
> call in German, Leica, LHSA, the Murcure Hotel. His mother. Someone else's
> mother, you name it. He was relentless. My plane didn't leave for 2.5 
> hours.
>
> He said his phone would not reach that far but I think he'd get in trouble
> trying to help me out as much as he planned.
> I'll never forget this its the best "service" I've ever gotten anywhere 
> from
> anybody. In the service industry. Or any industry.
> But five days later having put it on the LUG no one calls me or emails me
> and I'm thinking my first M6 with Rapidwinder and 40mm Wetzlar Summicron
> Leitz lens with CV finder and .... Oh black foam cover was no more in my
> life. Having blended into the German bus black felt cushions.
> My first body I'd gotten it 13.5 years ago and although I had a newer TTL 
> my
> later I used my  first one becuae it worked better with my favorite lens. 
> My
> compact 40mm f2 Summicron-C. A REAL Normal lens as far as I'm concerned.
> 50s are great but they are 6.7mm longer than true normal. And that puts a
> real hard edge on your shooting you don't concentrate you miss your focus
> and everything's really formalized. Flattened out. Less perspective. Might
> was well shoot with a 60. Or a 55 micro Nikkor as I've been doing. Give me 
> a
> kinder gentler 40. Take back your 35s and 50s.
>
>
> So Karen says why don't I ask Madge of course the obvious thing to do so
> Madge has it and thought the German something or others would have told 
> me.
> I promised Karen (my X) an Ice cream pie.
> That's what came out of my mouth at the time.
> Any such thing as an ice cream pie?!!!
>
> If not why not!???
>
> Lets make millions!!!
>
> I'll have a slice of ice cream pie with hot sliced apples on the side
> please.
> Ice cream pie al la mode.
>
>
>
> Dogless homeless but not Leica less.
>
> Mark Rabiner
>
> And not airplanes landing on my Van less.
>
> JFK runway
>
> http://rabinergroup.com/
>
> Stay tuned next week for markrabiner.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re: Boy meets Leica, Boy Looses Leica, Boy gets Leica back)
In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Boy meets Leica, Boy Looses Leica, Boy gets Leica back)