Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard Ritter wrote: > While attending the Belgian National Day festivities (a real treat, by the > way, especially on the 175th anniversary of independence! Where else could > you have seen the king and queen driven by in a c. 1970 Lincoln Continental > 4-door convertible, close enough for the cheering subjects on either side > practically to have reached out and touched them?), I spotted a > 40-something > guy with slightly graying light brown hair, in shorts, with a > photographer's > back pack, carrying a black R8 (maybe 9) with what looked like a 19mm > Elmarit. He was busy in conversation with another, so I didn't have an > opportunity to approach him. Made me sorry I'd left my own R9 at home in > the > U.S. this trip, or I could've waved it at him. > > Anyone on the list? > I was in Brussels also, but I carried a black M6. I also spotted a slightly small guy with black hair and a beard carrying a LTM with a wide angele lens and a universal vf. Was that you or Philippe? I also saw a woman with a black R3. Quite a catch for one day. Michiel