Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Horror Stories
From: Carl Socolow <csocolow@mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 12:01:20 -0500

> At Friday 03/03/2000 16:08, Frank Filippone wrote:
> >I was visiting friends in Manchester, England.  We went to a pub for lunch.
> >I had my trusty M3 with 90 ELmarit and 35 'Cron.  The pub was busy, so we
> >had to wait.  We had a drink then went into the restaurant to do lunch.
> >
> >Had lunch, when I noticed my camera bag was missing......PANIC!..... ran
> >back to the pub room, where my camera bag was sitting, untouched, with about
> >60 people drinking and having fun in the room.
> >
> >Try that in NYC!

Well, here's mine: I was photographing in a local high school's graphics
lab and I had set my M2 down while working low and close photos with the
21 on my M6. Of course I walked away and went to the next site in a
hurry to catch up with the PR person. I realized I forgot the camera
after about 5 minutes and raced back asking around if anyone had seen or
found the camera. Finally a one of the kids indicated where it was. I
thanked them and returned to my shoot. It was only when I processed the
roll that I discovered that one of the youths had photographed one of
the other youths exposing her ample bosom. Unfortunately, the photos
were underexposed and out-of-focus. The problem with kids these days is
they only know how to user point and shoots and don't know beans about
making a properly exposed and focused photo. I was glad to get the
camera back and had a good laugh afterwards. I won't go into the Canon
100mm I once left on the bumper of my car.

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Carl Socolow

http://members.tripod.com/SocPhoto/
New email address: csocolow@mindspring.com