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Subject: [Leica] American Graffitti
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:22:41 -0400

Port hole windows in a Thunderbird...
Bring that back they'll sell some cars!

I hear they've started making Mustangs look like Mustangs again.
Retro version....
I could have dreamt that.
Wishes become dreams?


Mark William Rabiner



> From: rsphoto's email <rsphotoimages at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:03:14 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] American Graffitti
> 
> Ted:
> 
> I'll be 69 next month.  No big deal.  Just means there are fewer
> ladies and gentlemen who remember the day they saw the first porthole
> windows in the Thunderbird.  Back when is really was a Thunderbird.
> 
> Or the first Corvette; an inline 6.  Still a pretty cool-looking car.
> 
> Or the Austin Healy 3000 Mk II.  And so on.
> 
> Or the Princess Marguerite pulling into Victoria's Inner Harbor in the
> summer afternoons.
> 
> What sticks in my mind just now is just how much grey hair there was
> at the Leica Seminars in Seattle last year.
> 
> Sort of a metaphor for the product line, I fear.
> 
> But for those of us who are long, long past 30, it just doesn't matter.
> 
> I still love my R8 and R9 and two superb lenses and my little T2.
> They really produce lovely images (when I do MY job...).
> 
> I use a G9 for business graphics and miscellaneous stuff.  I bought it
> refurbished from Canon and it's "just fine".
> 
> But I'm still planning on an M7 as my next purchase.  I'm not wuite
> done with film.  Not yet.
> 
> I just can't get excited about digital imaging machines until they
> become real, practical,uncomplicated, affordable for what they deliver
> and have some generational staying power (say, like the DMR, which
> still produces breathtaking images - right, Mr. Herr?).
> 
> But I remember how I fretted over the new, latest, greatest, improved,
> breakthrough technologies in audio, video and photo when I was
> younger.  What a waste of time that was.
> 
> So what if some of us go on a bit too long about the merits of the
> inline 6 engine, or why Schott crystal billets make the best optics,
> or how many operations go into the building of a Certified Swiss
> Chronometer.  I remember talking with the gal who cleans and repairs
> our family timepieces (including those with little batteries.  She
> went to Omega's Technician School back in the day.  I learned a lot
> about craftsmanship from her through the years.
> 
> If we don't pass on the legends of quality, caring and craftsmanship,
> who will come up as the next generation "expert" on the subject.  And
> advocate similar standards in their own companies?
> 
> Being an old fart has it's upside.  Ranting like this is one of them.
> 
> 
> Cheers, Ted.  I hope it's not snowing as much up there today as ist is
> in Seattle - although the TV weather reports show a lot of "pink" over
> the South Island.
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> 
> Hi Dr. Ted,
> 
> I've got thirteen months to go.  I'm sure you will be there before
> me.  ;-)
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] American Graffitti
> 
> 
>> OK guys let's get serious here. How many are 80 or over? Now that'll
>> be an
>> interesting stat if ever! :-)
>> 
>> Dr. ted the old guy! :-)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> leica
>> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 9:04 AM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] American Graffitti
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> You might ask, under 40?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Bruce.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 9-mrt-2009, at 16:46, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>>> Don't demean yourself.  You are not old!  I went to high school in
>> 
>>>> the
>> 
>>>> 40's.  Bronx High School of Science-- '47  It just
>> 
>>>> went co-ed in my Senior year.  Memories 8-)  !!
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Boy we are a bunch of old farts on the LUG. I graduated from High
>> 
>>> School in '47 too. Is there no one on the LUG that can be trusted?
>> 
>>> Is anyone one the list under 30?
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Larry Z
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>> 
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