Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whoops! Sorry Marc My mistake. I guess it must be someone else on one of these lists. I went downtown around Lexington with the eos1 and the 28-70 atx Tokina purely to get some pictures since I am not an activist by nature and don't much buy into left wing drivel although they do get it right once in awhile. Anyway, it was an interesting crowd - Lot's of boomers with no mind for real confrontation and lots of younger sorts many of whom were outfitted in 60s retro getups. Just about every possible cause was well represented including the bizarre. They were mostly peaceful butI can certainly understand why some might want to stay away. I kinda looked more like the village halloween party, another event I prefer to skip. I noticed about 6 Ms and no Rs. All except 1 were minty m6s or 7s with fancy pants asph lenses and a single user M4. Apparantly there are more chrome late model m6s than black ones. Maybe they finally figured it out. Chrome is tougher! One guy had a chrome user m4. I counted 2 and only 2 TLRs, a 124 and a Rollei. Didn't notice anything from ZI! or Japanese Contaxes. The oddest theing there was a Dakota SLR sold through Quantaray. I guess it's Chinese or Russian PK or M42. A very cute tiny camera btw. The real kicker was to see about 2 or 3 spacey looking 50somethings with FTNs! I guess that makes them conservatives! The rest included the usual A and Eos series canons, Nikons and Pentaxes. What pleased me the most was to find so many people still using manual focus cameras. The thing I didn't see much of were the older pro SLRs. F2s F3s XKs etc. This was afterall an amateur crowd and the pros have all gone digital. Oh, and no one asked me to take a picture of them. See Ya Javier >EZ for you to say Marc since you're a combat veteran Whoa! Hold your horses! I am NOT a combat veteran by any stretch, though my father and many ancestors were such. I merely pulled twenty years in the active Army, Guard, and Reserve. The only time I've ever had a firearm waved at me was by an angry client. I'm what the military calls a 'REMF'. Marc __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html