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Subject: [Leica] Pardon me sir, but it that a camera?
From: Bill at photobynelsch.com (Bill )
Date: Fri Dec 29 11:55:32 2006

And when I first used the M8 with my kids at Thanksgiving, they said "you're 
using that old camera again?" :)

Bill in Denver 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jeffery Smith
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 9:36 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Pardon me sir, but it that a camera?

I got the same question when I took a Voigtlander Bessa T (olive green) with 
a 50/3.5 collapsible Heliar and 50mm viewfinder to the
French Quarter. The person who stopped me thought it must be 75 years old. 
It was closer to 75 days old.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Hank 
Kellner
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:15 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Pardon me sir, but it that a camera?


Surrounded by about six million tourists sporting digital cameras, I stood 
on a street recently in one of those well-known tourist
traps in the Caribbean  with my M-4 with 50 mm Summicron gripped in my right 
hand. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a young
man--about twenty years old, I guess--who kept looking at me. 
      After a few minutes, the observer  approached me. I couldn't help 
noticing that he was wearing a digital camera that looked
like a tank.
Attached to the camera was a lens so big and bulky that it could have picked 
out a fly on the moon.
      When he was about three feet from me, the young man stopped; leaned 
toward me; pointed to my M-4; and asked, "Pardon me sir,
but is that a camera?"
      Well, I thought, I definitely am a member of a disappearing breed.
Hank Kellner
  NYC


Hank Kellner
Author, SHADOWS AT GARNER LAKE
www.iUniverse.com
Toll free: 1/800/288/4737
 

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Replies: Reply from telyt at telus.net (David Young) ([Leica] Pardon me sir, but it that a camera?)
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