Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark: Yeah. And remember the Mercury Sun Valley with the all glass, tinted top? There was a "rich kid" who's dad bought him one to drive to High School in our senior year. The high school is now a community center, but I still remember that yellow and green Sun Valley... Bob On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: Port hole windows in a Thunderbird... Bring that back they'll sell some cars! I hear they've started making Mustangs look like Mustangs again. Retro version.... I could have dreamt that. Wishes become dreams? Mark William Rabiner > From: rsphoto's email <rsphotoimages at comcast.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:03:14 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] American Graffitti > > Ted: > > I'll be 69 next month. No big deal. Just means there are fewer > ladies and gentlemen who remember the day they saw the first porthole > windows in the Thunderbird. Back when is really was a Thunderbird. > > Or the first Corvette; an inline 6. Still a pretty cool-looking car. > > Or the Austin Healy 3000 Mk II. And so on. > > Or the Princess Marguerite pulling into Victoria's Inner Harbor in the > summer afternoons. > > What sticks in my mind just now is just how much grey hair there was > at the Leica Seminars in Seattle last year. > > Sort of a metaphor for the product line, I fear. > > But for those of us who are long, long past 30, it just doesn't > matter. > > I still love my R8 and R9 and two superb lenses and my little T2. > They really produce lovely images (when I do MY job...). > > I use a G9 for business graphics and miscellaneous stuff. I bought it > refurbished from Canon and it's "just fine". > > But I'm still planning on an M7 as my next purchase. I'm not wuite > done with film. Not yet. > > I just can't get excited about digital imaging machines until they > become real, practical,uncomplicated, affordable for what they deliver > and have some generational staying power (say, like the DMR, which > still produces breathtaking images - right, Mr. Herr?). > > But I remember how I fretted over the new, latest, greatest, improved, > breakthrough technologies in audio, video and photo when I was > younger. What a waste of time that was. > > So what if some of us go on a bit too long about the merits of the > inline 6 engine, or why Schott crystal billets make the best optics, > or how many operations go into the building of a Certified Swiss > Chronometer. I remember talking with the gal who cleans and repairs > our family timepieces (including those with little batteries. She > went to Omega's Technician School back in the day. I learned a lot > about craftsmanship from her through the years. > > If we don't pass on the legends of quality, caring and craftsmanship, > who will come up as the next generation "expert" on the subject. And > advocate similar standards in their own companies? > > Being an old fart has it's upside. Ranting like this is one of them. > > > Cheers, Ted. I hope it's not snowing as much up there today as ist is > in Seattle - although the TV weather reports show a lot of "pink" over > the South Island. > > > Bob > > > > > On Mar 9, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: > > Hi Dr. Ted, > > I've got thirteen months to go. I'm sure you will be there before > me. ;-) > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:44 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] American Graffitti > > >> OK guys let's get serious here. How many are 80 or over? Now that'll >> be an >> interesting stat if ever! :-) >> >> Dr. ted the old guy! :-) >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >> leica >> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 9:04 AM >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] American Graffitti >> >> >> >> You might ask, under 40? >> >> >> >> Bruce. >> >> >> >> On 9-mrt-2009, at 16:46, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> >> >> >>> >> >>> On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Jerry wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Don't demean yourself. You are not old! I went to high school in >> >>>> the >> >>>> 40's. Bronx High School of Science-- '47 It just >> >>>> went co-ed in my Senior year. Memories 8-) !! >> >>> >> >>> Boy we are a bunch of old farts on the LUG. I graduated from High >> >>> School in '47 too. Is there no one on the LUG that can be trusted? >> >>> Is anyone one the list under 30? >> >>> >> >>> Larry Z >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Leica Users Group. >> >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> >> Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.9/1991 - Release Date: >> 03/09/09 >> 07:14:00 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. 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