Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] colored tape...was aluminium pods and cold hands
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:59:01 -0600

At 10:27 AM 2/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Check out a stage/theatre shop...they have really cool colors of Gaffer
>tape...I keep meaning to get some of the neon green and orange to tape over
>that damn distracting red dot on my M6......

Oh yeah.I can see it now. At a sniper situation, I've got my neon greet 
tripod with my R8 on top with a (wished for) 400 2.8 Apo Telyt. When they 
capture the sniper he says: "Yeah, I was distracted by some red dot that 
nearly blinded me. What green tripod?"

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

"People are inexterminable - like flies & bed-bugs. There will always be 
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