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Subject: [Leica] Leica sighting in Brussels
From: hlritter at mindspring.com (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sat Jul 23 09:41:08 2005

Not me, unfortunately Leica-less for this trip. But I did also spot someone
who I think looked like your LTM guy, but when I saw him he was sporting a
Digilux 2.

Can't remember the last time I saw 2 Leicamen in 1 day!

--howard


On 7/22/05 0213, "Michiel Fokkema" <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl> wrote:

> 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
> 
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