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Subject: [Leica] M8 Black, Be Welcome at home!
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat Feb 7 06:51:16 2009
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On Feb 7, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Seth Rosner wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> I have plenty of mystique and more than a little cachet...

not to mention panache...pas mal...

and a black M8....

but as I mentionned, I need a little talent, but I don't let that stop  
me,

;-)



>> Good on you, Steve; as for me, I can use all the cachet and  
>> especially all the mystique I can get. A lady of my acquaintance  
>> has said to me straight out, with a little more mystique and a lot  
>> more cachet, I'd be in the game. Quite naturally and with aplomb  
>> and dignity flying, I informed herself that I had no wish to play  
>> in her game.
>
> Ceci dit, I am on the verge of acquiring my first digital camera, an  
> M8.2.

have funn with the 8.2 Seth...

> Actually, it will not be my first digital; at the first LHSA annual  
> meeting I attended in Boston 8 or 9 years ago, at the Saturday night  
> banquet I won the door prize, a Leica Digilux or whatever they  
> called it. Monday morning Rich Pinto called and said he had promised  
> two good customers a Digilux but had only one and could he buy my  
> camera, so it went away before I could get it out of the box.

that's only six photos less than some of the recent cameras sold here...

> Now Lluis' problem has become mine: black or silver. Despite the  
> fact that most of my M lenses are silver, my user M6 is black, in  
> fact it is all-black, including a black 'Leica' dot - don't ask how  
> I did that!. I've even thought of having my two most frequently used  
> lenses, the 35/2,8 Summaron and 50/2 Rigid Summicron blackened in  
> Japan by Tom A.'s good friend, Shintaro Yaghinuma.
>
> P.S. Does anyone know if the black M8.2's are black paint or black  
> chrome?

paint I think...

maybe you need a black chrome M8...

(well, unless you are thinking of selling it to Rich Pinto)

Steve


>
>
> Seth
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 Black, Be Welcome at home!
>
>
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and that small group of us are in fact, quite partial to the black
>>>> M8's...
>>>>
>>>> if anything, this will add cachet to your mystique,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> My mystique needs more than cachet added!   ;-)
>>
>>
>> I have plenty of mystique and more than a little cachet...
>>
>> now I need some talent,
>>
>> but I do have a black M8,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Sonny
>>> http://www.sonc.com
>>> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>> USA
>>>
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