My Black paint M1 with 8mm M Mount lens will win it all...
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Sounds like this year's pagent will be a real freak show that will get out of control.
I'll add a new rule: NO BITING.
Last year we saw the Alpha male come out of Damaso. Brutal, especially just over a vintage Leica magazine. Imagine the fighting over a custom made/designed bag.
Perhaps I could follow the boxing tradition, instead of issuing the champ a belt, I create a camera strap that gets passed down every year to the winner that can be worn for the year on the winning camera that will be a badge of honor. I'll bring some sample Italian leather to the next Meet-Up so we can brainstorm.
Cal
P.S. Just call me the Larry King of the New York Meet-Up.
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Oops, did I say M1 w/ 8mm... I meant Ricoh w/ 28mm... wrong competition.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
This is a bump.
Hope to see you Saturday.
Cal
Hope to see you Saturday.
Cal
squirrel$$$bandit
Mentor
Hey guys, I'm coming to NYC this week but I think I'll have to leave town before 1. In any event, I'm giving a literary reading the night before, at Housing Works bookstore, if anyone wants to say hi. The details:
http://www.housingworks.org/events/...ts-j.-robert-lennon-ben-greenman-and-lynne-t/
http://www.housingworks.org/events/...ts-j.-robert-lennon-ben-greenman-and-lynne-t/
squirrel$$$bandit
Mentor
Wow, the bookstore is literally one block from the bar.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
I'm sorry I missed your last reading at the Cornell Faculty Club, but I will make this Friday's event.
Cal
jan normandale
Film is the other way
I'm coming just to roll everyone for their cameras... it's a long drive but it'll be worth it. Watch the RFF classifieds and have a lotta cash in your wallet
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squirrel$$$bandit
Mentor
This will be way, way more fun! Which is not to denigrate the wealthy retirees who dominated the previous event.
Thanks, Cal, be sure to introduce yourself!
JuJu
Well-known
Sounds nice, I'm in.
No new gears this time cuz' I haven't talked to Cal for a while
No new gears this time cuz' I haven't talked to Cal for a while
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
The best time to try do the heist is at the Second Anual Leica M-Body Beauty Pagent (February Meet-Up) where two lens kits will be judged complete with as many-many expensive accessories. If I had a chance, I'd steal Carl's "Brass Monkey," an old black paint M2 with Leicavit that has about half its paint worn off.
Be aware that the New York crowd is a tough bunch that gets mighty rowdy, but most of all we laugh a lot.
Cal
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Sounds nice, I'm in.
No new gears this time cuz' I haven't talked to Cal for a while
So that's why you didn't come to the last Meet-Up. You coward. At the last event I brought out my big and heavy cameras: a Plaubel 69W and a Fuji G690 "Texas Leica." The big cameras kinda make me look thinner and smaller BTW. LOL.
Oh, please bring out the Noctilux to play. I'll bring out my M6 that has been just serviced by Sherry with the MP finder upgrade. No more whiteout.
GEAR ALERT: for JUJU I will bring out my Noct-Nikkor.
Cal
helen.HH
A smile & a wink…
May I Add to that Cal....
With a Touch of a New Yawk Italian Twang
In the Voice...
With Good Cheer- Helen
Will probably Come to this One
Though I too have a bad Cold !
JuJu
Well-known
Noct-Nokkor?! I want to get an ais to nex adapter just to see how the lens draws! Yeah, I will bring my Noctilux and that aluminum water pipe (m42 Biotar 7.5 cm) just to be a cool kid
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
May I Add to that Cal....
With a Touch of a New Yawk Italian Twang
In the Voice...
With Good Cheer- Helen
Will probably Come to this One
Though I too have a bad Cold !
My girlfriend compares me to Lie-Za Dolittle from My Fair Lady, because of my thick Lawn-Guy-Land accent.
She thinks I clean up good. Feel better.
The last Meet-Up at the White Horse Tavern had a big turnout BTW, and an international flavor. We now have a regular that comes from Philly.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Noct-Nokkor?! I want to get an ais to nex adapter just to see how the lens draws! Yeah, I will bring my Noctilux and that aluminum water pipe (m42 Biotar 7.5 cm) just to be a cool kid
I call that alumium water pipe you call a digital camera "The Bong." Somehow I stll remember the seventies. LOL.
I also modded one of my Nikon F3's so the illuminating light for the meter comes on whenever the meter is activated. With a MD-4 it is not only big, but also loud, and what a fast shooter.
Cal
You don't have to have new gear to come to these... many of us bring the same cameras most of the time.
regularchickens
Well-known
I will try to make it (along with whatever gear happens to be in my bag).
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
You don't have to have new gear to come to these... many of us bring the same cameras most of the time.
Some people even bring TLR's and/or SLR's. Only requirement is to be a camera nerd, although a crazy amount of cool gear comes to these Meet-Ups. Christian sometimes brings a Linhof 4x5 that has this huge rangefinder even though its really a viewcamera.
Part of the fun is having all the digital guys ask me when I going to get a digital camera. LOL.
Its just a crazy bunch of guys and girls.
Cal