Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/10

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Subject: [Leica] Best sotry (to me) so far on the M9...
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:02:10 -0700

Thanks to M.J. for this reference. You know whenever a new camera is
introduced, someone always said, "yea, the brother of my friend's
second cousin has been shooting one in the last month and disguised it
as a Kodak Brownie!" but of course the identity of this brother is
never known?

Well, here it is:
****
Last Word

I was in a shopping centre in Norwich, and a small but elegant elderly
man came up to me and said ?I?ve never even held an M8, please could
I?? - of course, I had to say yes, at which point he thrust out his
wallet . . . ?just in case I run off with it ? he said!. It had a 35mm
lens on. He held it to his eye, and immediately said ?but this seems
to be full frame?, I had to tell him that it wasn?t, and he looked
confused and a bit miffed. It turns out that he worked for many years
taking measurably accurate large format shots of cathedrals and other
public buildings marked up for stone masons to work from, so it was
hardly surprising that he could recognise full frame when he saw it!
At any rate, he fell in love with the camera, and said that he planned
to buy one later in the year.  If he ever reads this I?d like to send
him my best wishes, and apologise for not telling him what he was
holding on to!
****

http://www.slack.co.uk/M9words.html


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