Re: [Leica] M6 Unboxed

[Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>]

Ted Grant jotted down the following:

>> Next came the Summicron.  Unzipping the case for the very first time,
>> feeling the weight of the lens in the hand, unscrewing the plastic
>> protectors on the M6 body and the lens, then matching up those red dots, and
>> twisting it into place with that re-assuring "click" of the frameline
>> selector.  Ahhh.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> Your description sounds like removing his or her pants for the first
> time. :-)
> 

Once upon a time, in my youth, I worked in a gas station during the summers
in between school terms.  One of the items we sold were magazines.  The ones
of the top shelf were -- I'm told -- filled with a similar type of prose and
pictures of objects of desire.

I can see it now: Magazines called "Photographer", "Darkroom", or "Street
Shooter", filled with images of scantily clad Leica equipment and
adjective-laden texts describing the sensations of close encounters.

M.
 
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