Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/03

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Subject: [Leica] Leica m9 sighting at Union Square tonight
From: thurmanphoto at gmail.com (Wendy Thurman)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:06:40 +0500
References: <C7B36EC2.5E9C1%mark@rabinergroup.com> <20100303020459.3e70f435@linux-0ifi.site> <eb6799211003022315x7065ac6cy2d618d58e7051c12@mail.gmail.com> <20100303022506.5c2960b9@linux-0ifi.site> <a3f189161003030428l31eb9e63k3916cd445d21ef20@mail.gmail.com> <1687372883-1267620740-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-9268939-@bda2913.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <4B8E68E0.9060605@gmx.de>

I was asked a few days go "Where's the screen?" on my M6.

Wendy

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> 
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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