Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WAS Shell; NOW LUG generosity
From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:58:06 -0400

> Steve can, of course, speak to this.  My recollection is that it was a
> gift (or perhaps I merely choose to remember it this way).  A search of
> the LUG archives would reveal all (if one could figure out an
> appropriate search string), but why spoil a pleasant memory by
> confronting it with a dispiriting fact?  I do this for a living in my
> day job--in my spare time I prefer to inhabit the fantasy world that is
> the LUG, where kindness, humanity, politesse, and good manners
> invariably prevail.
>
> Chandos

I do not like going public with this, but, what happened is about three
years ago a very enthusiastic and active young list member from Eastern
Europe who had a Zorki was desperate to own a Leica. So I had some old stuff
sitting around unused, two 111c's, a Summitar 50 and Hector 135. I was
captivated by his enthusiasm so I sent him that stuff as a gift with no
strings attached other than take great pictures. Later on, after a LUG
on-line fallout, he sent back one of the 111c's, the Summitar 50 plus a
Jupiter lens (which I gave to Todd Frederick on the Leica Forum and so far
he has not even acknowlged receiving it).

 What-goes-around-comes-around. End of story.

sl

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