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Subject: [Leica] Re: was 40 Summicron / Budapest suicides
From: Howard Cummer <cummer@netvigator.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 19:17:11 +0800

At 11:11 PM 3/5/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:03:27 +1100
>From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
>Subject: [Leica] Re: 40mm Summicron on other M mount cameras
>I can --- works fine, both in Minolta and Leica elmar c
>configurations. I use the latter now on M3, M6 both .72 and .85 sans
>problems.
> >  BTW the 40 Summicron is a very nice lens, compact and produces the
> >usual saturated Leica look.
>Agree completely, it was one of the 3 reasons I got hooked on the
>rangefinder as my major camera, the other two being the 28 and the
>90mm lenses for the CLE
> >About my 40 Summicron, I dropped it one night about 6 feet off a
> >stone wall to the pavement below while taking pictures of the bridge
> >across the Danube between Buda and Pest.
>VERY clumsy Howard. Some notable people have flung themselves off
>bridges in that area as I recall.

Thanks Alastair, ;-).
Now who flung themselves off what bridge? And shall we start a thread about 
the terrible things we have done to our Leicas? (Maybe time to recycle 
Ted's cows**t story)  Best to Helen,
Cheers,
Howard.


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