Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gregoire, your cup runneth over... All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Grégoire Vandenschrick <vandenschrick@geog.ucl.ac.be> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 31. elokuuta 2000 17:21 Aihe: [Leica] A very very cute story... >I'm so excited that I have to write you this... > >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 >