Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Grégoire Vandenschrick wrote: > > I'm so excited that I have to write you this...<<<<<<<<<<<< Bonjour Gregoire, Congratulations to you and your about to be bride! Good choice of girl and cameras! :-) ted Victoria, Canada http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > > My fiancée and I will be married this 16 of september. > This morning, I was walking around a well known camera dealer in brussel > (near St. Boniface for the belgian people) and saw a Leica M3 in the shop. I > entered, inspected the camera, and baught it. I had the plan to offer it to > my girlfriend, as a wedding gift. This was so because I ennoy her now for > more than six months with all the Leica docs I collected from the web, > because I'm fond of the M6. Listening to me with such a kindness, she didn't > stay unreceptive to the Leica addiction, and found the M3 the best camera of > all. So, I come back home this midday, with a mystery look on my face, and, > in a sudden, give her the camera. She was totally astonished by it, then, > with also another, even more mystery look on her face, she asked me if I > wanted also a wedding gift now, because it wasn't complete yet. I said yes. > and then... ho, what happend, she gave me a brand new M6 TTL 0.72 silver > chrome, apologizing herself for there was not yet the 35 summicron asph with > it. The rest is a little bit to intimate to describe, but, ho boy, what a > day!! > > This is totally real, and if not, I don't want to awake, what a wonderful > girl I have... > > The M3 is an early one, double stroke, sn 740198, with a summicron 50 sn > 1442083 > The M6 has sn 2495878. > > at least, M... > > Grégoire Vandenschrick