[Leica] "It has a big red dot on it...."

[robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)]

Vince,


My M4 doesn't have the red dot.   Perhaps you could trade her your  
IIIf for it....
What and where do you teach?

Robert

On May 21, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:

> Anecdote: I took out to lunch a potential new student and her  
> father today;
> she's likely coming to our program. Then she came back to my office to
> handle some class registration stuff. Saw my IIIf (which needs  
> repairs) up
> on the shelf. "I have a camera that looks something like this," she  
> said.
> "It was a gift from my grandmother."  I showed her the rear of mine  
> and
> said, does it have two holes to look through or one?  "One," she said.
>
> "Does it say Leica," I now ask, feeling a bit like the wolf in  
> Little Red
> Ridinghood.  "I don't know," she says, "I basically just put it  
> away as some
> kind of antique."
>
> I figured it was an M2 or M3 as they are closest "one-hole"  
> relatives to the
> IIIf visually; unless it was a Canon or some other 1950s  
> rangefinder. I sat
> down and started up the computer to take care of her registration  
> issues.
>
> "It has this BIG red dot on it," she says suddenly. I stop typing.   
> "Bring
> that with you in the fall," I tell her. "I'll show you how to use  
> it."  My
> fangs are dripping now. "Does it have a lens?" I say,  
> backtracking.  "Oh
> yes," she says. "I think there are two."
>
> You'll find me in my office baying at the moon, I almost say.
>
> Was it the M4 or the M6 that was the first to have the red dot?
>
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