Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I knew I was getting older when I had college students who were born after 1980, and when I went into a high end audio shop and no one knew what a cartridge for a turntable was. That was an eye-opener. The salesman had never seen vinyl. I suppose he'd probably never seen a Selectric, either! ;-) Kit - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of clifford wright Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:23 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] These kids today! (was Re: silly errors) That's one of the fun things about using a TLR. The conversations with the kids that don't know what it is and the old fogeys that do. Clif - --- Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net> wrote: > 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 ===== "The eye is for looking, not for thinking." Marc Riboud __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ - -- 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