Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/05
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At 1:26 PM -0800 2/5/01, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>My Hasselblad when flying out of my hands on a side road in Cannon
>Beach here in
>Oregon and it when skidding down the middle of the street.
<snip>
>But would kill for a 100 or 120 macro.
>
>Mark Rabiner
>Portland, Oregon
>USA
>updated temporary Website by "Foxy": http://spokenword.to/rabiner/
>(consisting of late night E-mail descriptions of photos)
>
>i fixed the lens hood with some black epoxy
I think Hasselblad will want you to sign an undertaking not to go
bowling anymore with your camera before they'll sell you a 100 or 120.
...
Over the years the rangefinder on my Leicas has occasionally gone out
of adjustment; usually about once every 5 to 10 years.
Last time was just before I was to visit John Collier, although I
didn't think to connect him with this incident at the time. There was
this icy sidewalk in Edmonton with a thin layer of snow on it...
One body with the 50 Nokton hung from my neck, and a bag over my
shoulder. The camera around my neck hit the sidewalk solidly, and
another body and some lenses popped out of the bag when it hit the
sidewalk. One rangefinder out of adjustment, one rewind crank bent,
and all the diaphragm blades on my then-new Nokton aflutter inside
the lens. And yes, a range of bruises on me.
The first half of my life I lived in snow and ice country, then I
escaped and forgot how to walk on snow and ice. But now I remember.
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