[Leica] in which kyle tries to take a photograph with a leica....

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Kyle, I'll pay $100 for that piece of junk camera. Obviously the autofocus 
module is off, as is the 4-D matrix auto white balancer. Send me email.

At 04:59 AM 4/9/2007, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>so last week i went out with some friends and didn't feel like carrying a 
>big heavy camera ... "hey!" i thought, "I'll bring the Leica!"
>
>My M6 has had the same roll of film in it since 2002 so finishing it off 
>sounded like a good idea.
>
>The first three photos I took I realized later I had the aperture set to 
>f22, despite it being dark out rapidly everyone got very tired of me 
>shouting "wait! wait! I need to focus this!" no matter which way I turned 
>the focusing ring, the rangefinder seemed to go the opposite direction for 
>what I needed.
>
>The most embarrassing part though was that when the roll had ended -- I 
>couldn't remember how to get the film out. For several minutes it escaped 
>me that one needed to flip a lever to enable the rewind knob to spin 
>backwards and then for some reason, I had it in my head that pulling up on 
>the rewind knob would pop the back out.
>
>The real kicker?
>
>My photos were awful. This is the best of the lot:
>
>http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2007/mimi.jpg
>
>Whatever part of my brain was being used in the past to properly operate a 
>Leica is now filled with baseball statistics and lists of people who have 
>won on Survivor.

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