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

[john.nebel at csdco.com (John Nebel)]

John,

Yes, this youth needs teaching.

"I basically just put it away as some kind of antique."

Best,

John

Vince Passaro wrote:
> I teach literature and creative writing at Adelphi Univ. on the Isle of
> Long.  We have an MFA program which is what we are recruiting her for. 
> She's
> quite talented.
> 
> I like my IIIf. I'm thinking more along the lines of, how bad do you want
> that A?
> 
> V
> 
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 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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