Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein