Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: New Hexar RF? Don't wake me
From: Barney Quinn <barney.quinn@noaa.gov>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:58:49 -0400

Jeffery,

You have come to the right place for advice on how to handle this 
problem. Many of us on the LUG have had years of experience in managing 
this. Advance preparation is the key. Move the TV and a comfortable 
chair to the garage right now. :-) <Grin>

Barney

On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 05:43 PM, Jeffery L. Smith wrote:

> I hear ya. And my wife doesn't know that a 35/1.2 Nokton is on its way 
> to our house, to arrive on Wednesday. I haven't figured out how I'm 
> going to explain that one. For a while, she thought all of these were 
> one camera (after all, who needs more than one camera and lens).
>
> Jeffery
>
>
> At 05:02 PM 6/1/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>> And.... don't wake me because I have finally hit the wall with Leica 
>> /Camera Acquisition Syndrome - I no longer have $, room or my wife's 
>> patience to buy another shred of camera equipment !!
>>
>> BTW just started watching the Robt. Capa documentary as I had it 
>> recorded.  I'm not sure this was commented on before but so far  ( 
>> 2/3 done) I found it interesting if not a little romantic about the 
>> non-fascist side of the war that Capa and other's participated in .  
>> My early reading of the war was that it is too simplistic and 
>> probably wrong to say the facists were the bad guys ( no doubt they 
>> were) and that the other side were good folks - they too were pawns 
>> in many instances of the communsits in the Kremlin.   Anyway I'm 
>> enjoying the photography portions.
>>
>> ernie
>> On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 04:37 PM, bdcolen wrote:
>>
>>> I love this...First, based on a net-based flash come-on that shows
>>> essentially nothing, a bunch of people decide that Konica is 
>>> releasing
>>> an interchangeable lens, M-mount, high-res, digital rangefinder 
>>> camera.
>>>
>>> When some folks point out that it's impossible to tell from the 
>>> little
>>> flash tease what Konica is going to announce, people turn around and
>>> say, oh, it's a point and shoot and I don't want it.
>>>
>>> I love it.
>>>
>>> Wake me on the 6th when we know what Konica's announced.;-)
>>
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