Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Javier Perez asked: > I .......crossed paths with a fellow with an M6. I pretended not to notice him or his camera and > he pretended not to notice me or mine......Is there an secret Leica salute or hand signal that > should be used at times like this? > Javier > Funny thing sometimes, running into other Leicaphiles whilst out shooting. Once or twice, I've found the above 'me-no-see-you-with-your-Leica' behaviour. I find it a little silly, and frankly if deliberate, rather rude. Once I was attending an advanced B & W class in Sydney, and one other guy turned up with a Leica SLR. For the entire evening this person went 'out of his way' to pretend that I wasn't even in the room, and then never turned up for the folowing 9 weeks of class! Maybe he didn't care for the 'competition' of having to deal with another Leica owner?Give me a break! As an alternate re-action, last year when shooting with my Rollei 6008i on the Victorian coastline, an American visitor touring Australia came up to discuss my camera, mentioned his M3 and we had a really delightful natter about my Leicas and Rolleis, and his. Instant, if short-term friends! Why do people have these different reactions? I don't believe that when out shooting, just because there is another person holding a camera (any camera), you have to engage them in a long-winded dissertation on the more esoteric aspects of photography........however, if you have both plainly seen and established that you have a 'little something' in common (eg. the same marque of camera, or something similar), why not at least nod and say Hello.... Ross