Re: [Leica] Paul K. Miska

[John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu>]

Are you going to loan him your M2 for the show and tell part of the speech?
He holds the N**** in one hand, and the M2 in the other.  He even uses the
M2 to take a picture of his German class during the speech.  Will you get it
back?

Thanks for sharing, Kurt.



Kurt Miska wrote:

> Fellow LUGers
> If I may be permitted to boast a little, pleas read on. Our son Paul is
> a sophomore at the University of Michigan studying aerospace
> engineering. He’s also a  very avid amateur photographer using two
> N****s. He’s also taking a spring semester of advanced German where one
> of his assignments is to do a  5 to 10-minute oral presentation in
> German on a subject having to do with Germany.
>
> Knowing how much I enjoy my M2 and its lenses, he chose to do his
> presentation on the history of the Leica. I taught him the German words
> for ‘professional photographer’, ‘interchangeable lens’, ‘rangefinder’
> and a few more. He’s going to quote Mr. Leitz’ famous five words,
> “Barnack’s camera will be built.” Then, to make things a little more
> interesting, he downloaded a number of famous Leica photographs to show
> the class.
>
> He chose, in no particular order, the photo of Che on the cover of the
> M6 brochure, the famous Spanish Civil War photo by Robert Capa, the
> Vietnam photograph by Eddie Adams showing the execution of the Viet Cong
> suspect and, last but not least, the David Douglas Duncan photo of the
> exhausted Marine in Korea.
>
> Thanks for listening and with great pride.
>
> Kurt Miska
> M2