Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try going out and shooting with a Rolleiflex TLR. One kid came up to me and asked what it was. I said a camera. He replied "neat". Peter Klein wrote: >>I was having lunch with a model last week and happened to snap a photo >> > >Go ahead, gloat about it . . . > >>. . .she'd never been photographed by anyone using film before. . . >>. . .she gave the leica a curious going over, pronounced it "cute but >>strange" and we continued with lunch. >> > >>Remember when I used to be the youngster in this group? I'm falling >>apart anymore. >> > >Kyle, you have just had your first "Oh, God, I'm *really* not a kid >anymore!" experience. Mine was about 15 years ago when I admired the deft >modifications female co-worker of mine had made to a printed circuit >board. I joked that you didn't have to have such dexterity when I learned >electronics and got my ham radio license, since a lot of stuff then was >still based on tubes. > >She looked at me blankly and said "Tubes?" > >And then it hit me. > >So, bro', we feel your pain. You can take comfort in the fact that >physical rot and senility is still a ways off. However, you may find that >your coolness quotient begins to go down. The gothgrrl and rockerbabe >models will no longer see you as edgy, with a thrillingly dangerous air. >Instead, they'll begin to view you you as cute and adorable, in a retro, >big-brotherly kind of way. You'll live. > >--Peter > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html