Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] happy birthday!
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Fri Mar 24 07:15:16 2006
References: <200603241030.k2OAU4vV089266@server1.waverley.reid.org> <4423FFD0.3030804@iinet.net.au> <20060324145201.GE4567@panix.com> <AE6A43F6-20BC-49F5-BCDA-1880CD8679A8@cox.net> <44240C2F.40708@waltjohnson.com>

Walt,
I will take the bait.  Let us pretend that I Googled you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WALT!  May we have many more years of your ascerbic wit and
photography.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 3/24/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
>
> Every time I see one of these "happy birthday" posts I get cheerful.
> Thinking someone remembered Saturday is my birthday. Then go to find out
> it's all about some damn lens. Oh, the heartbreak...... :'( :'( :'(
>
>
> Walt
>
>
> Steve Barbour wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> >
> >> a most timely message!  2006 is the 30th birthday of the f1 noctilux.
> >> and i still trust it.
> >
> >
> > and Rei... fwiw....
> >
> > the photos from the Noctilux routinely appear to me better !! than I
> > anticipated they would be...
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure what that really means, but I can't say that about any
> > other lens...
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >>
> >> only two M lenses come to my mind with this length of production were
> >> the original 1961 35 'lux 1961-1995 (34 years) and the  2nd
> >> 50 'lux 1962-1994 (32 years).
> >>
> >> -rei
> >>
> >> On Mar25 01:18, A.H.Schmidt wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi, I am not quite sure, why anybody would want to worry about  any
> >>> abberations of the Noctilux.
> >>>
> >>  ....
> >>
> >>> 2. The lens has been around for some time now, and if  there where
> >>> better F1 lens, then, I am quite sure,
> >>> Leica would release a somewhat updated lens.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> >> Ridgewood, New Jersey
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
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Replies: Reply from bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] happy birthday!)
Reply from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] happy birthday!)
In reply to: Message from horsts at iinet.net.au (A.H.Schmidt) ([Leica] Re:Noctilux abberations?)
Message from shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka) ([Leica] happy birthday!)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] happy birthday!)
Message from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] happy birthday!)