On 16/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >I suspect that many of you expect this, but what the hell, I'm nothing >if not predictable, right? <vbg>
I'll drink to that. > >This is a wonderful camera, as Cotty describes in this auction. It's >smaller than it looks in the photos - it looks to the unsuspecting >subject like a little p&s, when in reality it's a serious photographic >instrument. The first Leica ever with ttl metering. Just in case you >do some research that questions it's reliability (the swinging meter >cell was a problem), the current thought is that the bad ones broke >early. Pretty much all the ones still around are solid, and likely to >continue going for a long time. Thish man noes wut heesh tawkin about, hic. > >And, that lens! By far the sharpest that I own. Even over at LUG, it >has a great reputation. One of the best that Leica ever made, is how >I've seen it described, and I believe it. > >You should bid on it now. Cotty needs to get to GFM!! LOL. Thanks Frank. If someone uses the BIN, I could even travel Club Class. > >BTW, Cotty, I do have the original hood (becoming more and more rare, >btw, as the flexible rubber cracks over time), but I don't have a lens >cap. They're sooooo hard to find. Maybe you sell me yours, and take it >out of the auction? (just kidding). I never knew that. There's probably some rich Leica nut out there who would buy it just for the cap and sell the rest on. Pentax owners wouldn't stoop so low........... > >And, no, I'm not shilling for Cotty, but I think you owe me a beer for >this one. I just can't remember where we are on this drink thing. I >think about even. Should we both make it to GFM next year, we'll just >have to drink our faces off, buyer be damned! <vbg> I'll bring a shilling with me for your troubles Frank ;-) And a couple of bottles of Wychwood's finest.... Thanks mate Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk