Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/26

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Subject: [Leica] Gene's dilemma Now in Canada at Niagara Falls...
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:54:13 +0800
References: <a3f189160905261619u60b01719wfc8a5b712dec8272@mail.gmail.com> <C642136E.4EFB9%mark@rabinergroup.com> <a3f189160905261850p3b889839yacb48afe3764e15a@mail.gmail.com>

Or if you must have a Leica lens there's the new Panasonic FT1...

On May 27, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:

> OK, just go out and get a Pentax Optio W60 Digital camera, cheaper  
> than
> fixing your M8
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Mark Rabiner  
> <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
>> I carry around a picture of my parents on their honeymoon in my  
>> wallet 1950
>> taken on the Maid in the mist you can see their faces only peaking  
>> out in
>> their provided raincoats. I was born a year later.
>> I find this everybody telling somebody to leave their M8 at home  
>> don't
>> bring
>> it on the Maid in the Mist to be exceedingly wimpy.
>> Check Flicker to see some of the tens of thousands of pictures  
>> taken on the
>> boat every single day for decades by the multitudes..
>>
>> The raincoats they provide now are way thinner than in 1950 but I  
>> bet they
>> work just fine. Keep your camera under the raincoat. And in a  
>> camera bag of
>> some sort. If you want to be exceedingly paranoid they have these new
>> things
>> now called plastic bags. I think they're made of Saran Wrap not sure.
>>
>> Having your picture taken on the Maid in the Mist not just on your
>> honeymoon
>> but for whatever else as been a tradition going back tens of  
>> thousands of
>> years to the cave man era. They brought UR  and O prototypes in  
>> droves..
>> This was 1914 BCE. Late Cavemen.
>>
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
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THEIN Onn Ming
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