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Subject: [Leica] Good News! (was Re: sell me your Digilux! (so i can stop taking photos with my phone!))
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:40:36 -0400

Do they have cameras now which can load pix into your iPhone wirelessly with
Bluetooth or something like that?
If so a cure for the ultra convenience of iPhone photoitus would be to wear
a cute and more high functioning camera around you neck on a thin cord.
Then hit the button and it goes to your iPhone where you can fire it off to
your friends.
I feel it in my bones that this kind of thing is happening.
There are millions of small fun cameras but if it was me and I had money I'd
get a Dlux. Less money a Clux.  Both Leica with red dot but of course really
Panasonic. Both gorgeous if you get them in black.
Just use a Dulux for a half hour and not love it...

--------------------
Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Christopher Saganich <chs2018 at med.cornell.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:43:06 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Good News! (was Re: sell me your digilux! (so i can 
> stop
> taking photos with my phone!))
> 
> 
> I recently had a similar experience with a
> Swedish camera.  The cookies they gave me
> afterward were really good.  It both pays and is expensive to be stubborn.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> At 03:27 PM 9/20/2010, you wrote:
>> A deal may have been reached.
>> 
>> I bid on a Digilux but swiftly received a
>> counter offer from an attorney representing "a
>> concerned group" who explained if that if I
>> would cease this pursuit of a Leica and promise
>> not to represent myself as "a photographer who
>> uses Leica gear, at all, ever" they would offer
>> me a sum of money and some gear of a competitor.
>> I replied "go jump in a lake, I only use Leica
>> gear!" at which point two gentlemen appeared at
>> my door. I recognized them after a moment as
>> Jesse "the Body" Ventura and Alex Trebeck. They
>> wrestled me into a bag and drove me to a barn
>> where I heard a few men speaking in German --
>> the only words I remember were repeated again
>> and again as they poured freezing cold water
>> over me: "Viel Gem?se ist ver?rgert. Winkelst?ckenergie. 
>> Fischha?t?rkn?ufe!"
>> 
>> When it became woefully apparent that they spoke
>> no English and I spoke no German, they took me
>> out of the bag and pantomimed what I think was
>> the plot of the pilot for Father Knows Best but
>> I wasn't sure. After a while they handed me a
>> Digilux while at the same time distributing a
>> powerful electric shock. Every time I touched
>> the camera, the same thing happened; electricity
>> would shoot through my body and the men would
>> shout: "Langsamer Toastermann. Feiern Sie!
>> Langsamer Toastermann. Feiern Sie!" They got
>> really worked up. But I couldn't stop picking up
>> the shiny shiny beautiful Leica. This went on for a long time.
>> 
>> Eventually they gave up and dropped me off in the park.
>> 
>> I called the guy who's Leica I'd bid on and he
>> said he'd put it in a box and ship it out.
>> 
>> So. In the near future, I will most likely have new Leica photos for 
>> you!!!!!
>> 
>> kc
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Chris Saganich MS, CPH
> Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics
> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
> New York Presbyterian Hospital
> chs2018 at med.cornell.edu
> http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Good News! (was Re: sell me your Digilux! (so i can stop taking photos with my phone!)))
In reply to: Message from chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich) ([Leica] Good News! (was Re: sell me your digilux! (so i can stop taking photos with my phone!)))