Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> I would like to buy 2 M6 TTLs for my outfit, a black and a silver, a >> 0.72 and a 0.85, What combination will you choose? Why? > > 1. Black 0.72 & Silver 0.85 > > 2. Silver 0.72 & Black 0.85 alas b.d. not only is it not satire posted by me, but it's not the first time someone's posted this question. though, here's what i'd do: buy the black .72 and spend the other $2,500 on gunpowder and whiskey. load everything up into the Chevy Blazer and drive to some town on the outskirts of gettysburg PA and hang out a sign that says "free gunpowder and whiskey" then spend the next two weeks taking portraits of people who come by. you'd have to set up some rules, naturally, something like this: 1. all whiskey must be drunk on premises. 2. gunpowder/whiskey will be distributed ONLY on a 6:1 ratio that'll assure you that your participants will hang out and party before taking their gunpowder away and anybody who wants LOT of gunpowder will be good and drunk when they leave (and therefore very likely to do something dangerous that will generate interest in your photos, i.e. "hello associated press, you know that old guy in bird-in-hand pa who blew up the grain elevator yesterday? i have the last photograph of him. he's holding a sack of gunpowder in one hand and a bottle of old crow in the other. are you interested?")