Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle is getting desperate: > how long has it been? i can barely breathe -- i feel suffocated .... > despite valiant efforts from steve lehurray (who ended my MOST CRITCAL > problem with the m3 -- in the form of sending me (free of charge) a nifty > rewind lever for it) i'm still m6less. a call to ye not-so-local camera > shoppe which has held my beloved leica imprisoned these many weeks, > revealed no news "i just dont know that the status is" i was told "call > back monday". This sounds like a pitch for me to send you an M6. LOL ;) > > i began to sweat. so what, it's july. tomorrow i'm off to a Foto Shoot, > i'll bring the m3 and a ... 50? 35? i'd take the 35 -- Lugger jim shulman > loaned me a 35mm finder the size of a grapefruit, it's like having the > head of john the baptist in my hotshoe and sticking my eyeball to his ear > every time i want to take a photo. changing the shutter speed with that > thing attached is out of the question, so i might take the 50. i guess it > would force me to work with that focal length -- but Why Suffer!? aahhhh yesss!! back to basics. i firmly believe something good will come from that. dust off that 50 front element and surprise us all. and no more dead possum shots. > > my m6 was so beautiful (okay, it was ugly, but we never quarrled). I envy Kyle, so tall and slender, so intellectual, a master of all he sees and feels.....and his M6, I would kill for that battle worn look, scraped and scarred. I feel your pain man. Call whomever has delovely, yell & scream you need it back, NOW. > > okay kids, i'm going to grit my teeth and dive in. wish me luck (or > demise, as your conscious warrents) kick butt Kyle. Do it with a 50--we are all waiting. sl