Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]An olive drab Leica is more than tacky - it could be fatal. Imagine you are in a combat zone, particularly in a third world area where everything is highly charged and unstable. You are stopped by troops. You have an army green camera. Ergo, you are a combatant. An exaggeration? I doubt it. Sal? Ted? George? Emanuel? Would you like to be caught alive carrying military colored cameras?;-) B. D. ark Cohen wrote: > > I think we should have a rainbow of M6s to match our wardrobes. (: > > -Mark > > > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Dr. Joseph Yao wrote: > > Frank, > > The olive green M6 is not a special edition. It is just a plain M6 TTL 0.72 > with a different finish. It has no special engravings except 'Leica'. > > Not tacky. Just good looking. You have to see one to appreciate. It is > almost as nice as an olive green M3! > > Bests, > > Joseph > > > on 20/3/01 2:22 pm, Frank Filippone at red735i@earthlink.net wrote: > >> and we call this the WWII edition? Korean Police Action Edition? VietNam >> War Edition? >> >> Tacky, tacky, tacky. >> >> Frank Filippone >> red735i@earthlink.net >> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Mark Cohen (BALUG LHSA AFA) > 226 San Carlos Street #1 "MIS people have sick, twisted > San Francisco, CA 94110 little minds" -Linus Torvalds > > (home) (415) 970-9421 (pager) (888) 702-9872 > (cell) (415) 290-7201 > (work) (415) 633-1179 page-mark@binaryfaith.com > > *** The box said "Install NT 4.0 or better", so I installed UNIX *** > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GCS/FA/MU d? s+:+ a- C++++ ULBS++++$ P- L+++ E--- W-(+++) N++ o? K? w--- > O? M-- V-- PS+++ PE Y++ PGP++ t+ 5++ X R+ !tv b+++ DI+++ D+ G++ e++ h++ r% > y+ z** > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > >