Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:24:39 -0400, Martin Howard wrote: > >Let me second Martin: >Walther Benser wrote in his book "My Life with Leica": When he went out >to take some >photographs one of the first times with a Leica I, as a Leitz apprentice >and laid the >camera down to the street in order to load a new film, he suddenly heard a >woman >blowing him up: "Are you crazy? What do you think putting a Leica in the dirt >regardlessly?" >(Original German: " Was denken Sie sich eigentlich dabei, Ihre Leica >einfach in den >Dreck zu legen? Sie sind wohl nicht ganz bei Trost?") > >He turned around and recognized the wife of the sales director of Leitz. with people like that patroling the streets, it's not gonna be safe to put your leica down anywhere! guy