Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] My Afternoon with Victor
From: kiklaas@iinet.net.au
Date: 23 Apr 2002 01:40:03 -0000

I really enjoy your stories, John.

Karina



> Having met Victor Wek for the first time last week at McBain's Leica 
> Day, I was eager to continue our discussions. Fortunately he politely 
> accepted an invitation to tea at my   happy home perched above the North 
> Saskatchewan River. Actually, the truth be told, remarkably few houses 
> in Edmonton, happy or otherwise, are under it.
> 
> We exchanged more Leica and Leica-User gossip from near and afar and did 
> our own version of Leica stacking; more like Leica sifting what with the 
> way things were scattered about. I am reasonably sure that more than a 
> few lens caps ended up in a close embrace with lenses they were not even 
> on speaking terms with that morning.
> 
> He once again submitted my 35/1.4A to myriad of exposures, I think he is 
> weakening, and I got to try out an early E58 Noctilux. I am rather 
> surprised to be saying this but the Noctilux is actually quite a compact 
> lens. Well at least the E58 version is. I certainly have never felt the 
> same way about the new E60 version with the built in hood. I 
> unfortunately took a few exposures at f/1 and fully expect to be soon 
> selling my body on the streets to fund another must have lens.
> 
> He introduced me to his Nikon FM2-T with a 65 Elmar and adapters mounted 
> on it and I showed him his first Visoflex. Why at one point a 135 Hektor 
> was brandished about with intent. One might say we plumbed the depths 
> indeed.
> 
> We also partook in the ancient Lug ritual of Taking Each Other's 
> Picture. While he is one handsome devil, I would be afraid for your 
> children if my sorry excuse for a face ever came to light. It might even 
> stir up Congress to finally do something about the open moral turpitude 
> on the net.
> 
> All this is to say that you should make efforts to meet your fellow 
> Leica-Users. They are by and large a charming bunch.
> 
> John Collier
> 
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