Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One day HCB was lurking along the masonry of an old French building in France when a boy leaped like a gazelle over a puddle on the sidewalk. HCB raised his pre zone focused and metered camera to his face and was about to capture the boy perfectly suspended in the air with his reflection off the puddle when a guy he didn't notice standing next to him says: "WAIT!!!!!!" Having missed out on a treasured happysnap that he could make 4 by 6's to hand out in the holidays the photographic cipher-extraordinaire exclaimed: "&^%$#@*&^!!!" which in French is "*$%^&#$##!!!" "You can't use that lens to take a picture," the guy said probably in French as this takes place in France, "Why Not?" (Quell Quoi? or something like that.) "Because that lens has been replaced by an even better one with a lens shade that can be converted into a......and advanced optics of an highly better sort." says the guy. "Well if its OK with HCB its OK with me!" finally says the famous elusive photographer. Mark Rabiner