Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, I happen to have the NG for Feb 1970 in front of me. I have a whole load of back-copies about Ethiopia (Eritrea was part of Ethiopia at the time) from researching my own visits to the country. The story mentioned on the ebay site is on p. 186, by writer/photographer Victor Englebert. It's very good, and very well photographed. He was lucky to get away from that part of the country with his bollocks still attached (assuming they are). I hope my cameras look as good as that one sometime. - --- Bob mailto:bob@web-options.com I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. - - Woody Allen Tuesday, July 17, 2001, 6:59:23 PM, you wrote: > Frank Filippone wrote >>Not that I disbelieve this particular story, but if I had a nickel for every >>camera that had a great story attached to its sale........... >> >>A new invention of Ebay is the Auto-BS-Story generator. First created in >>non-computer form for Shutterbug Ads....... >> >>Frank Filippone >>red735i@earthlink.net >> > A possibility that didn't fail to cross my mind:-) But it does have a > sortakindamoreorless ring of veracity about it (but then I'm a hopeless > romantic). I do hope all those bidders had some way to check it out . . . > I guess one easy way would be just to correlate the articles and covers > mentioned in the text with the photographer who actually did them. > Anyway, even if it's hoax, it's a nicely done one:-) > Regards > Dan Bowdoin