Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi all! Yes - kudos to Messrsr. Lau and Khor - and also to the LUG which brought all three together. All the best! Raimo Photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - ---------- > From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] R8 story of the Century? Millenium? > Date: 04. marraskuuta 1999 23:04 > > Folks here is one that you will find quite interesting! > > You may recall I had an R8, winder and 35-70 3.5 disappear during the 1998 > Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumper, Malaysia, September '98. And the > unfortunate non-insurance situation that occurred due to two people > "assuming" the other had looked after the ensuring! (Myself and assistant > Sandy) Of course neither had, so it meant buying a new R8, winder and I > didn't replace the lens as I figured I wait for the 35-70 2.8. > > That's the back ground. > > Last week a wonderful LUGGER in Kuala Lumper whom you all know, Mr. MC Lau, > that I met and enjoyed his friendship on my arrival in KL, sent me an > e-mail that maybe, just maybe, my missing camera had surfaced. > > An R8 was being offered for a very cheap price to a photographer who was > leery of the price and placed a call to another photographer in KL. This in > turn opened lines of communication within KL photographers who were aware > of the "missing Leica R8" MC was informed and he was on it's case right > away. > > The next post: "yes the serial numbers matched and a contact was set in > play to recover it." Now it became a daily posting back and forth, Canada > to Malaysia on how to handle this. > > Do we get the police involved? NO, it'll create too damn much paper work > and who knows if I'll ever get it back! Second option, buy it from the > seller, seemed strange buying my own camera from a possible thief, as it > turned out this person was an unwitting buyer himself from the original > perpetrator. It will be purchased at a very nominal recovery fee, which I > can assure you is much better than buying another new one! :) > > So folks as we speak, write, read whatever, MC is in the process of > rescuing my R8 lifted 14 months ago! :) > > Now if that doesn't make you want to believe there is some good guy or gal > on high looking after me, nothing will. With any kind of luck I'll have it > back in hand by this time next week! Ya alright, let the force be with > you!:):) > > I suppose I sound a little excited, yeah I guess you could say that. :) > > So guys and gals I'd appreciate a great big round of applause for LUGGER MC > Lau in Kuala Lumper, Malaysia, for his efforts in the rescue of a wonderful > Leica R8 camera. > > ted > > > > > > > > Ted Grant > This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. > http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant >