Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] still m6less....
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:24:49 -0500

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