Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] I'm done kicking myself
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Fri Jan 28 08:16:01 2005

OK, so I'm a klutz.  I get "klutz attacks" where for no reason known to 
humanity I'll briefly become so clumsy that nothing anywhere near me is safe 
from being dropped, stepped on, run into... you get the picture.

So yesterday I have this klutz attack and the 280 APO+chrome SL2 are in the 
wrong place at the wrong time.  Do I need to go into the details?  Lens and 
camera are on a FedEx airplane to the hospital in Northvale; the lens will 
have to be transferred to intensive care in Solms.  @&!!*

I'm now a few hours away from the actual event and the self-butt-kicking has 
subsided; panic has gradually set in.  Going without the 280 APO for any 
length of time is a problem, and given the time it's taken John Collier's 
lens to return I have nightmares of going the entire spring and most of the 
summer - prime time for the 280 - with nothing in the 300mm range.

Suitable fill-ins?  I'm open to suggestion, either brand L or brand N.  
There's really no substitute for an APO-Telyt.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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