Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> >I was in San Francisco these past few days, >> >and spent Monday shooting in and around SFMOMA >> >and the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts. >> >Afterwards, I walked over to the Ansel Adams >> >Friends of Photography Museumto see the Annie >> >Liebowitz show "Women." As I stepped up to the ticket >> >counter the young man working there looked at the >> >black M6 around my neck and asked: "Hey! Is that a >> >Holga?" I fumbled for a moment and said, "Well >> >... kind of." He said: "Oh man, they are so cool!" >> >No lie. >> >Guy > > >Just reaffirming what I sad awhile back. Folks think M cameras are P&S (or >worse) cameras and aren't interested in mugging you for it. > >Jim Hey, this kid just might've mugged me, such was the gleam in his eye when he believed I was toting a Holga. So the hell with black tape, I'm going to see how I can make the red dot *more* conspicuous so as to ward off young pup photogs with a hankering for black plastic! Guy