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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] still m6less....
From: "onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:52:35 -0500
References: <200107200540.BAA02402@unix3.netaxs.com>

Start loving that M3!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris 

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <cassidy@netaxs.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:40 AM
Subject: [Leica] still m6less....


> 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". 
> 
> 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!?
> 
> my m6 was so beautiful (okay, it was ugly, but we never quarrled).
> 
> okay kids, i'm going to grit my teeth and dive in. wish me luck (or
> demise, as your conscious warrents)
> 
> keep pushing that shutter button, it'll come unstuck,
> 
> kc
> 

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