[Leica] Leica m9 sighting at Union Square tonight

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

The Leica myth lives on.
At a camera fleamarket in Horley (near Gatwick Airport in the UK) a few 
years ago, one of the stallholders swore blind that Leicas had always 
been made in East Germany by the same company that made Praktica cameras 
after we got into conversation when he saw my M6.

Cheers
Douglas



On 03.03.2010 13:52, rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com wrote:
> That's been my experience, too. In all the years I've carried Leicas the 
> only comment received was from an elderly gentleman at Niagara on the 
> Lake, Canada. Certainly in Ohio, where I live,  Leica knowledge is very 
> limited. Not sure there  is currently even an authorized dealer in the 
> State. Midwest Photo and Cord no longer carried them last time I checked.
> Rob
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sonny Carter<sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:28:49
> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica m9 sighting at Union Square tonight
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Philip Forrest
> <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>    
>> I'm replacing my red dot with a black dot.
>>
>>      
>
> Nobody in Natchitoches knows or cares what a Leica is.  Sonny is just the
> guy who always has a camera.
>
>
>