Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] Skype call to Kyiv
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 16:26:47 -0500
References: <507795ea-cbd9-91e1-f83a-1c0fba460f81@gmail.com>

I am so glad her immediate family is currently fine.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 4:08 PM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/52005785452/in/dateposted-public/
> >
> F11 to view full screen, press L or click the pic to enlarge.
>
> Kyiv is my wife Katya's home town. After a month and a half of hearing
> nothing from her childhood friend there, we finally reconnected. The
> friend and her husband are OK. The apartment building where one of her
> sons lives was hit by a Russian rocket. The son and his family are
> unhurt, but all their doors and windows were blown out. All this is in
> the same general area where Katya lived before she left what was then
> the USSR.
>
> Leica M10-P with Leitz Summitar 50/2 lens from 1949. I think it back
> focuses slightly on the M10-P.  First world peacetime problem. Every
> day, my poor wife reads about and sees images of familiar places in
> Ukraine being blown to bits.
>
> --Peter
>
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In reply to: Message from boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] Skype call to Kyiv)