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Subject: [Leica] B&W LEICA???????????
From: scoutfinch at chartermi.net (Sue Ryan)
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:06:40 -0500
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Love it! 

What makes it perfect is that not only did he have no clue what he was 
talking about, he also had no clue who he was talking to. It's hard to get a 
twofer making an ass of one's self, but maybe he is just gifted.

Sue

Sent from my iPad

On Feb 14, 2013, at 9:52 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:

> Classic!  Too bad he didn't have a clue! ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Gene
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tedgrant at shaw.ca
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:25:00 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [Leica] B&W LEICA???????????
> 
> As I stopped to make a HAPPY SNAP.  
> 
> The voice out of the gray cloudy light of day asked:
> 
> "Hey man is that one of those fancy new Leicas that cost $12 Grand and "IT 
> CAN ONLY DO B&W FOR THAT KINDA MONEY?"?
> 
> I figured by the snotty put down tone of voice it was a jerk asking!" :-)
> 
> I responded in a light hearted fashion.... "Yes my good fellow it 
> certainly is and does a magical job capturing amazing images in beautiful 
> B&W!"  
> 
> He?..... "What a pile of crap ! Man I can get 2 Canons and a couple of 
> lenses for 12 Grand and do colour and B&W. You got screwed man!" And made 
> an ugly face you'd like to put a boot to! Or you'd have loved to rip his 
> larynx out just to rid the world of the snotty nosed voice inflections!
> 
> Say's I? "Would you care to see a frame or two?" As I put the camera to my 
> one good eye and clicked.
> 
> Then did a quick set to show a B&W beautiful image. :-) Dang I knew I had 
> this snotty nosed SOB and I was going to stuff him because as I brought up 
> the image he said....... "I bet it isn't as good as shooting B&W film and 
> I know all about that as I've been shooting B&W film for 4 years nearly 
> every day and my "friends" tell me I take really good pictures !" Me in my 
> mind....  "Yep I bet you do!" Gagg ed and nearly barfed! 
> 
> So yep there was my shot looking all nice B&W! A shrug of his shoulders 
> and "UGH not bad! But for 12 Grand I'll still get 2 Canon's just in case I 
> want to shoot colour. Besides it looks like one of those old time 
> cameras!. "YEP!" says I as I walked away and tucked my Digilux 2 shooting 
> B&W back in the bag! :-) "gottcha!!" And smiled! 
> 
> And smiled to myself again thinking....... "the LUG guys &gals are going 
> to love this "Leica spotting story! " Jeeeeeeeeeeesshhhhhh it can make a 
> guy feel so good when yer not having a good shoot day and you get away 
> with a little something like that! :-) 
> 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted.
> 
> 
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