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

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Subject: [Leica] happy birthday!
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Mar 24 07:25:43 2006

Hey, Walt, happy birthday! There aren't many of you still around and
shooting who grew up on the original Kodak! :-)


On 3/24/06 10:15 AM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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