[Leica] Knew I should have left the plastic at home.

["C. L. Basso, K.C.S., M.Sc." <urizen@telocity.com>]

Wandered over to a Leica day on Saturday.  Good thing the Mrs. was in Grand 
Rapids.

I started out looking for a 0.58 M6 (so I could finally see 35mm framelines 
comfortably), and maybe a 35/2.  Price on the body was darn good - ~$1450 
after rebate - so I bought the thing.  Black, of course, as all my other Ms 
are - if it blends in with the others SWMBO won't notice it as 
readily.   Then I can pull the old "oh, I've had that for a while" 
routine.  Yeah, that's the ticket.

And then I saw it.  It.  Staring at me from a corner of the counter.  The 
Lens of Evil I'd coveted for twenty years, spawned in the pits of Midland 
and dedicated to hoovering out my wallet.  Yep, a serious case of <jarring 
chord> Noctilust (or should that be Naughtilux?) had overtaken me.  Then 
the internal dialogue began...

Good Me:  "Wait, what do you need *that* for?"

Bad Me:  "What do I need *anything* for?"

Good Me:  "Your M bodies are all 0.72."

Bad Me:  "And 0.58 now."

Good Me:  "Doesn't matter.  You won't be able to focus that thing."

Bad Me:  "Ted can."

Good Me:  "You're not Ted."

Bad Me:  "I know.  I know.  I probably won't be able to reliably focus it."

Good Me:  "Good, now let's go.  You've already got one body waiting at the 
register."

Bad Me:  "Say, what about a 0.85 body?"

Good Me:  "Don't even *think* about going there."

Bad Me:  "Maybe I can get a deal if I buy a 0.85 body with the Noct."

Good Me:  "Maybe you'll be sleeping in the garage until you're fifty."

Bad Me:  "Hey, Leica Demo Guy.  What price will you give me on the Noct if 
I take a 0.85 body too?"


And somewhere deep in the offices of my creditors there was much rejoicing.



Goodbye and hello, as always.
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C. L. Basso, K.C.S., M.Sc.         Walled Lake, Michigan
"The whole of life is /nothing/ more than questions that have taken unto
themselves shape, and bear within themselves the sum of their own answer:
and answers that are pregnant with questions.  Only fools see it otherwise."
  -- Gustav Meyrink, /Der Golem/

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