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Subject: [Leica] [OM] IMG: Rural Mail Carrier
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 14:57:00 -0500
References: <5c837d4f-6d8c-d413-097c-704672c38ac6@lighttube.net> <1980671534.710546.1526411896281@connect.xfinity.com> <b753fabe-003e-95df-bc20-9e83104b815c@lighttube.net>

Was the Jeep right hand drive?  A couple of them around here are.  Mostly
the RFD drivers have perfected sitting in the right seat and driving from
mailbox to mailbox on the verge of the road.

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
wrote:

> Hi Don,
>
> I would never do that. ;-
>
> I acquired this lens in a Leica swap many years ago, and found that the
> rangefinder cam does not work with Leica RFs.  Probably Zenit or something
> else from the USSR.  But, with Leica adapters, it works fine with my
> mirrowless Fujis.  Very compact.  Only problem is that the aperture ring is
> very free.  A little black tape will take care of that.  And, it will poke
> through the chain link backstops at ball parks!
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 5/15/2018 2:18 PM, Don Holbrook wrote:
>
>> You're just trying to get me to buy more lenses, aren't you........:-)
>>
>> On May 15, 2018 at 2:45 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I was checking out an old Russian Jupiter 8 lens, thinking of using it
>>> at ball games, when this rural U. S. Mail carrier happened to stop
>>> across the street.   This road, alongside my house, serves the Eastern
>>> part of Moore County, best known for Lynchburg and the Jack Daniels
>>> Distillery.  I have noted that the carrier who delivers mail on this
>>> route uses an assortment of vehicles, including the regular mail
>>> trucks.  Today, it was a stylish Jeep, driven from the right side, of
>>> course.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20180515-DSCF7308.JPG.html
>>>
>>> This tiny lens is no Summicron or Silvernose Olympus, but it is
>>> distortion-free and very light.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
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Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA


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