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Title: For 280Plus: Top 10 Reasons to buy a Leica
Post by: mtnbkr on February 24, 2006, 05:05:05 AM
Sorry, I saw this on photo.net and thought you'd get a kick out of it.  They're all tongue in cheek...or are they? Cheesy

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1. It was imperative that I spend more than $6,000 on a new 35mm rangefinder camera with a 50mm f/1.4 lens that the manufacturer patronizingly called a "Starter Set."

2. I buy all my photographic hard goods at the Hermes Boutique and it was the only camera the retailer had for sale.

3. Take photographs with a camera that doesn't have Ralph Gibson's signature stenciled on it? That's crazy talk.

4. With the German unemployment rate over 12%, if Leica goes out of business, the German economy will resemble the Weimar Republic.

5. Nikon SP replica cameras just aren't pretentious enough.

6. It was the only camera I could have custom-covered in elephant penis skin.

7. The shutters of other cameras are too loud- they hurt my ears.

8. You haven't lived until you've partied with the Leica Historical Society of America, and they wouldn't let me in the door at meetings carrying a Pentax K1000.

9. I wanted a "Hammertone" camera with a gray, lead-like finish that appeared to have sustained severe hail damage.

10. Carrying a Leica, I bag more pelt than Sinatra in Vegas.
Yeah, I still lust after one.  Thanks to you, I'm longingly looking at them on ebay again. shocked Tongue

Chris
Title: For 280Plus: Top 10 Reasons to buy a Leica
Post by: K Frame on February 24, 2006, 05:55:11 AM
" It was the only camera I could have custom-covered in elephant penis skin."

ICK!
Title: For 280Plus: Top 10 Reasons to buy a Leica
Post by: charby on February 24, 2006, 06:51:10 AM
Quote from: Mike Irwin
" It was the only camera I could have custom-covered in elephant penis skin."

ICK!
http://www.fashionablecanes.com/store/441.html

accessory to go with camera
Title: For 280Plus: Top 10 Reasons to buy a Leica
Post by: matis on February 24, 2006, 07:40:14 AM
Quote from: Mike Irwin
" It was the only camera I could have custom-covered in elephant penis skin."

ICK!
Yeah, sure!


You wouldn't say that if you were a female elephant photographer, now would you?

(Take that any way you want to.)   Cheesy




matis
Title: For 280Plus: Top 10 Reasons to buy a Leica
Post by: garrettwc on February 24, 2006, 08:13:41 AM
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10. Carrying a Leica, I bag more pelt than Sinatra in Vegas.
This one should be much higher than 10. Heck when I was toting my old Pentax ME around I thought I was a Playboy photographer. Only trouble was I couldn't convince the ladies I was. Tongue
Title: For 280Plus: Top 10 Reasons to buy a Leica
Post by: 280plus on February 24, 2006, 08:57:50 AM
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7. The shutters of other cameras are too loud- they hurt my ears.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it... Cheesy