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Subject: [Leica] happy birthday!
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Mar 24 07:35:53 2006
References: <C04979A4.E5DA%bdcolen@comcast.net>

Yes, and all the times I cut my fingers on the glass plates :-*

B. D. Colen wrote:

>Hey, Walt, happy birthday! There aren't many of you still around and
>shooting who grew up on the original Kodak! :-)
>
>
>On 3/24/06 10:15 AM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Walt,
>>I will take the bait.  Let us pretend that I Googled you.
>>
>>HAPPY BIRTHDAY WALT!  May we have many more years of your ascerbic wit and
>>photography.
>>
>>Don
>>don.dory@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>On 3/24/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
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>>
>>>Every time I see one of these "happy birthday" posts I get cheerful.
>>>Thinking someone remembered Saturday is my birthday. Then go to find out
>>>it's all about some damn lens. Oh, the heartbreak...... :'( :'( :'(
>>>
>>>
>>>Walt
>>>
>>>
>>>Steve Barbour wrote:
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>>>>On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>a most timely message!  2006 is the 30th birthday of the f1 noctilux.
>>>>>and i still trust it.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>and Rei... fwiw....
>>>>
>>>>the photos from the Noctilux routinely appear to me better !! than I
>>>>anticipated they would be...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'm not sure what that really means, but I can't say that about any
>>>>other lens...
>>>>
>>>>Steve
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>only two M lenses come to my mind with this length of production were
>>>>>the original 1961 35 'lux 1961-1995 (34 years) and the  2nd
>>>>>50 'lux 1962-1994 (32 years).
>>>>>
>>>>>-rei
>>>>>
>>>>>On Mar25 01:18, A.H.Schmidt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi, I am not quite sure, why anybody would want to worry about  any
>>>>>>abberations of the Noctilux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>> ....
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>2. The lens has been around for some time now, and if  there where
>>>>>>better F1 lens, then, I am quite sure,
>>>>>>Leica would release a somewhat updated lens.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>>>>>Ridgewood, New Jersey
>>>>>
>>>>>
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