[Leica] Amazing Leica Sighting Today at the Mermaid Parade

[jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)]

My guess, Steve, is that most of the folks there were kind of out of their
minds.  I felt an immediate kinship. So it's only natural that it would
attract all kinds of Leica users out of the woodwork <g>.  

Put another way: would a sane person go to an outdoor party event in 85*F
heat with a Speed Graphic and fifty film holders in a duffel bag? 

I ran into a fellow from Reading, PA with three Leicas--an M6, M2, and a
iiic--he says he's on the LUG, but I've never heard from him before--who
said that he'd blasted through two dozen rolls of film this morning.  

Jim


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Subject: Re: [Leica] Amazing Leica Sighting Today at the Mermaid Parade


On Jun 23, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Jim Shulman wrote:

> I shoot a lot of miscellaneous events around the East Coast of the  
> US (and beyond).  At best, I've encountered one or, tops, two other  
> photographers--from hundreds in attendance--who use Leicas.
>
> Today was a revelation.  I went to the Mermaid Parade at Coney  
> Island (web images from previous Mermaid Parades at  http:// 
> tinyurl.com/yuwhxq) and saw DOZENS of people using Leicas.  Quite a  
> few M8s, loads of M6s, M7s old M2s and M3s--even a fellow with a  
> iiic.  I hadn't seen that many Leicas in one place outside of an  
> LHSA event or an 80s camera show.


any idea why Jim...?

Steve

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> There were also quite a few film 'blads, several twin lens  
> Rolleiflexes and Mamiya C2/3s--and one brave soul shooting 4x5 with  
> a Speed Graphic, while hauling along a duffel bag filled with film  
> holders.
>
> My four rolls of Kodachrome go off to the lab on Monday.  I must  
> say that even by my exalted standards this was a 100% taste-free  
> event.  Nothing's like a lady dressed as the Statue of Liberty with  
> green pasties, surrounded by several dozen avid snapshooters.
>
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
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