Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Start loving that M3!!!!!!!!!!! Chris - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Cassidy" <cassidy@netaxs.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:40 AM Subject: [Leica] still m6less.... > how long has it been? i can barely breathe -- i feel suffocated .... > despite valiant efforts from steve lehurray (who ended my MOST CRITCAL > problem with the m3 -- in the form of sending me (free of charge) a nifty > rewind lever for it) i'm still m6less. a call to ye not-so-local camera > shoppe which has held my beloved leica imprisoned these many weeks, > revealed no news "i just dont know that the status is" i was told "call > back monday". > > i began to sweat. so what, it's july. tomorrow i'm off to a Foto Shoot, > i'll bring the m3 and a ... 50? 35? i'd take the 35 -- Lugger jim shulman > loaned me a 35mm finder the size of a grapefruit, it's like having the > head of john the baptist in my hotshoe and sticking my eyeball to his ear > every time i want to take a photo. changing the shutter speed with that > thing attached is out of the question, so i might take the 50. i guess it > would force me to work with that focal length -- but Why Suffer!? > > my m6 was so beautiful (okay, it was ugly, but we never quarrled). > > okay kids, i'm going to grit my teeth and dive in. wish me luck (or > demise, as your conscious warrents) > > keep pushing that shutter button, it'll come unstuck, > > kc >