Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] because "hasselblad" means "leica" in swedish
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Sat Oct 20 18:27:18 2007
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Kylie''

They hate vegetarians and vegans, not you specifically.

Jerry


Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> question: 
>
> while shooting for a Top Secret New Project (TSNP) today, my hasselblad 
> jammed. sweet barking cheese. i kid you not. it fired three frames, and 
> then i was unable to wind it. the mirror was locked up. the dot on the 
> magazine was black, the dot on the body was white. i tried to stick the 
> dark slide in and take the back off, but the slide would only go about 1/2 
> way in before it hit something. i _could_ wind the back. which i 
> eventually did -- wound all the film up, took the magazine out -- it was 
> rolled rather _loosely_. i had to put it in a changing bag and tighten it 
> up. but after i took the back off and put everything back together, it 
> worked fine again.
>
> wtf is going on? why do those swedeners hate me?
>
> kc
>
>   


In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] because "hasselblad" means "leica" in swedish)