[Leica] IPhone 5 for Rabs

[dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com (Dennis Kushner)]

Mark, there is a flashlight app to light up your night shots.
Those phones are smart!   :D

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:10 PM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Don't worry Mark, I have a iPhone 5 and hardly ever use it to take a
> photo, maybe 10 photos in it.  it's good to do appointments in the calendar
> or other scheduling goodies, check the stock market, take notes, and of
> course make phone calls.  I'm sure you will survive, and not join a iPhone
> photo group and talk nasty about Leica's. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 1:48:31 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [Leica] IPhone 5 for Rabs
>
> An hour ago the UPS man handed me my first smart phone an IPhone 5 I
> ordered
> 3 weeks ago. I can not text for about the first time and listen to music
> and
> any number of other things... Make a phone call... Just like the rest of my
> world. I feel like I'm re  joining the human race I think as I'm 61 its not
> good to fall too far behind you get marginalized.
> : to relegate to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or
> group
>
> Or as Arthur Miller said: not be a contender.
> Make that Budd Schulberg .
>
> I can now join the throngs of Morlocks on the sidewalks and the buses and
> subways staring at the light in the palm of their hands as I press
> imaginary
> buttons on a flat shiney screen.
>
> Soon I will quit the LUG and no doubt join a "screw Leica I'm taking photos
> with my cell phone" clique.
> If that happens I hope someone puts me out of my misery soon.
> Didn't come with a manual. I have little clue what to do now.
> It will take 2 weeks to get my Panther who loves the snow operating system
> so it would sync with my macbook pro in which I type now. (on a separate
> real nice keyboard).
> Will I type super short notes as I see being done by some Lug guys using
> odd
> abbreviations from my iPhone to the LUG?
>
> I hope to be be a new true believer but I know there are friends and people
> I'm not working with because they could not text me. Or if they emailed me
> I'd not get it till I got home at the end of the day.
> So its a good thing.
>
> And I'm reading Chekov short stories. In a real book. Which I'm not going
> to
> try to put in the iPhone.
> It charging now. Theses a brand new Verizon store at the top of my hill on
> 80th and Bway maybe they can give me some clues on how to get the thing
> going.
> I got the black one. The clerk (crew member) at the Meatpacking Apple store
> told me to get a white one as it shows finger prints less.
>
> It looks like the obelisk in the beginning of Kubrick's 2001.
> I'm going to put on my Richard Strauss. And try to squeeze it in my black
> iPhone. Can you make movies with it?
> Maybe I should google it and find out.
> Then I google how to google with it.
>
>
> Sent from My RabsBook.
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
>
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