Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M8 WONDER MACHINE! :-)
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri Sep 22 15:13:58 2006
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On Sep 22, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> Ted, inasmuch as you were shooting during the golden age of  
> Rolleiflex, did you ever use one on a regular basis? Most of the  
> folks on the Rollei Users Group seem to have an instinctive  
> attraction to the venerable TLR, but I've never heard the word  
> "Rolleiflex" uttered in any of your LUG posts.

definitely a post with an indescribably immaculate sense of nuance,  
timing,  and good humor....


Steve




> --
> Jeffery
>
> ---- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Chris Lawson said:
>>>>> Because Ted and Tom are big dogs in Leicadom, not just Canada,  
>>>>> they get
>>>>> PERSONAL PLAYTIME with the new tool/toy. <<<<
>>
>> Oh my friend Chris you are so far wrong when it comes to me &  
>> Leica! I'm not
>> a good boy in their eyes. Never mind the reason, it's an absolute  
>> privacy
>> matter.
>>
>> The only reason I got to "play with a Leica M8" was through my  
>> wonderful
>> friend Tom Abrahamsson! If it were not for Tom I'd be sitting on a  
>> wet
>> blanket like the rest of you, honest!
>>
>> Some of you lads have an entirely wrong perspective of my  
>> connections with
>> the "Fatherland company!" Despite my always putting Leica ahead of  
>> any other
>> these many long years, as well as being the key tool to my success  
>> lo these
>> many years as a photojournalist.. OK over a half century of  
>> published work.
>> ;-) .
>> ted
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Re: M8 WONDER MACHINE! :-))