[Leica] Pardon me sir, but it that a camera?

[chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)]

It is interesting that excellent design is often associated with the past.

At 04:19 PM 12/29/2006, you wrote:

>Hank Kellner wrote:
>
>>Surrounded by about six million tourists sporting digital cameras, I 
>>stood on a street recently in one of those well-known tourist
>>traps in the Caribbean  with my M-4 with 50 mm Summicron gripped in my 
>>right hand. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a young
>>man--about twenty years old, I guess--who kept looking at me.
>>       After a few minutes, the observer  approached me. I couldn't help 
>> noticing that he was wearing a digital camera that looked
>>like a tank.
>>Attached to the camera was a lens so big and bulky that it could have 
>>picked out a fly on the moon.
>>       When he was about three feet from me, the young man stopped; 
>> leaned toward me; pointed to my M-4; and asked, "Pardon me sir,
>>but is that a camera?"
>>       Well, I thought, I definitely am a member of a disappearing breed.
>
>
>In very early September, I had the chance to use a pre-production M8 for a 
>week.
>
>One day, I took it to the local park, where a bunch of young kids were 
>having a soccer match..
>
>One of the parents looked at the M8 with 75mm Summicron and said "What a 
>*nice* old camera!".
>
>I offered that it was new.
>
>"Oh... new to you", she said.
>
>"Actually, quite new", I said.
>
>And we left it at that.
>
>Hey! At least she recognized it as a camera! ;-)
>
>Cheers!
>
>
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>David Young,
>Logan Lake, CANADA
>
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