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Subject: [Leica] Good News! (was Re: sell me your Digilux! (so i can stop taking photos with my phone!))
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:05:22 -0400

Although the D and C lux may not have the blue tooth.
Probalby green tooth as its made in Ireland.

But I bet in the B&H catalog there's a thingy you can plug into lots of
cameras to make them blue tooth. Or any color you want!

--------------------
Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:40:36 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Good News! (was Re: sell me your Digilux! (so i can 
> stop
> taking photos with my phone!))
> 
> Do they have cameras now which can load pix into your iPhone wirelessly 
> with
> Bluetooth or something like that?
> If so a cure for the ultra convenience of iPhone photoitus would be to wear
> a cute and more high functioning camera around you neck on a thin cord.
> Then hit the button and it goes to your iPhone where you can fire it off to
> your friends.
> I feel it in my bones that this kind of thing is happening.
> There are millions of small fun cameras but if it was me and I had money 
> I'd
> get a Dlux. Less money a Clux.  Both Leica with red dot but of course 
> really
> Panasonic. Both gorgeous if you get them in black.
> Just use a Dulux for a half hour and not love it...
> 
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> mark at rabinergroup.com
> 
> 
>> From: Christopher Saganich <chs2018 at med.cornell.edu>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:43:06 -0400
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Good News! (was Re: sell me your digilux! (so i can 
>> stop
>> taking photos with my phone!))
>> 
>> 
>> I recently had a similar experience with a
>> Swedish camera.  The cookies they gave me
>> afterward were really good.  It both pays and is expensive to be stubborn.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> At 03:27 PM 9/20/2010, you wrote:
>>> A deal may have been reached.
>>> 
>>> I bid on a Digilux but swiftly received a
>>> counter offer from an attorney representing "a
>>> concerned group" who explained if that if I
>>> would cease this pursuit of a Leica and promise
>>> not to represent myself as "a photographer who
>>> uses Leica gear, at all, ever" they would offer
>>> me a sum of money and some gear of a competitor.
>>> I replied "go jump in a lake, I only use Leica
>>> gear!" at which point two gentlemen appeared at
>>> my door. I recognized them after a moment as
>>> Jesse "the Body" Ventura and Alex Trebeck. They
>>> wrestled me into a bag and drove me to a barn
>>> where I heard a few men speaking in German --
>>> the only words I remember were repeated again
>>> and again as they poured freezing cold water
>>> over me: "Viel Gem?se ist ver?rgert. Winkelst?ckenergie. 
>>> Fischha?t?rkn?ufe!"
>>> 
>>> When it became woefully apparent that they spoke
>>> no English and I spoke no German, they took me
>>> out of the bag and pantomimed what I think was
>>> the plot of the pilot for Father Knows Best but
>>> I wasn't sure. After a while they handed me a
>>> Digilux while at the same time distributing a
>>> powerful electric shock. Every time I touched
>>> the camera, the same thing happened; electricity
>>> would shoot through my body and the men would
>>> shout: "Langsamer Toastermann. Feiern Sie!
>>> Langsamer Toastermann. Feiern Sie!" They got
>>> really worked up. But I couldn't stop picking up
>>> the shiny shiny beautiful Leica. This went on for a long time.
>>> 
>>> Eventually they gave up and dropped me off in the park.
>>> 
>>> I called the guy who's Leica I'd bid on and he
>>> said he'd put it in a box and ship it out.
>>> 
>>> So. In the near future, I will most likely have new Leica photos for
>>> you!!!!!
>>> 
>>> kc
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> Chris Saganich MS, CPH
>> Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics
>> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>> New York Presbyterian Hospital
>> chs2018 at med.cornell.edu
>> http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/
>> Ph. 212.746.6964
>> Fax. 212.746.4800
>> Office A-0049
>> 
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