Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:39 PM 12/17/2008, you wrote: > >Thank you very much for all your really interesting details and >general information, I'm very happy with my old new toy, at least I >can say that I have something archaeolgical!. Well, I've paid much >more less than the values indicated by you, this would be a good deal >if the today value was between 800/1200$. I've saw a similar one on e- >bay, announced as a Contax F, but with the same logo as mine, asking >"Buy it now" for 813$ ...??! > >Well, the camera and lens is younger than me, it shall run! My family generally live long, dying in their 89's or 90's from Terminal Nastiness. And almost all die peacefully in their sleep. After all, only the good die young! My earliest camera is a 1932 Voigtl?nder Bessa which I have owned since 1962, so I have had that camera with me for more than half of its life. No, I do not possess the Repository of Early Leica Cameras: that is held by Ted Grant, but, what the hey, Ted has been in Late Middle Age since 1492 or, maybe, 1399 -- accounts differ, but who can trust historians to be able to EVER find the truth of Ted Grant's oddball life? After all, he DID pull point detail for Hannibal when he crossed over the Alps. I really do not understand why he keeps rejecting those offers from Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise to play him in the Biopic Hollywood has intended to make of such an illustrious and LONG life, albeit, though he will not admit it publicly, all of his photographs were either tintypes or Daguerrueotype plates. "New Technology? What do I care about New Technology," stormed the Stormy Ted, "I can do more with a Petzval lens and a View Camera than that pesky rascal Barnack will ever do with his contemptible excuse for a camera." That was in 1915, when Ted was patriotically toeing the Canadian line, shortly before his heroic exploits at Gallipoli, when he saved the Venus de Milo from destruction by the bombardment from the 182nd Landweh-Artileree-Regiment of the German Army. Ted has such a past that we must only acknowledge his legacy as the man of perfection! Petzval lens, indeed: Ted TAUGHT Petzval how to design the lens. The stories about the battery of Austrian artillerists are all false. Ted KNEW it all and passed it on to Petzval, who then got cheated in a Huge Corporate Scandal by the Voigtl?nder folks in a scam even Obama could not resolve, had he been about at the time. Ted. it really is time to come clean. When you got the shot of Trudeau going down the bannister, however did you keep from scorching him with the flash powder? Enquiring minds want to know! Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!