[Leica] The M9 Has Supernatural Powers

[gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com (Greg Lorenzo)]

Sounds like you were extremely lucky.

 

Usually won't happen twice though.

 

Greg Lorenzo

Calgary, Canada
 
> From: Neil.Beddoe at raidllp.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:17:17 +0100
> Subject: [Leica] The M9 Has Supernatural Powers
> 
> I took mine on a cycle ride with my children yesterday and had it in a 
> small camera bag in a pannier on the back of my bike. We stopped in a 
> playground on the way back and I was just putting the camera in its case 
> when my daughter fell over and started to cry. I quickly stuffed it back 
> in the pannier thinking "I must remember to put that away properly" and 
> picked her up for a cuddle. Anyway, we left the park and cycled home for a 
> couple of miles along footpaths and busy roads. When I got home there was 
> some minor domestic emergency which occupied me for about 40 minutes and 
> after it was dealt with I went to the bike to get the camera to load the 
> pictures onto the computer. No M9 and attached 35 summiliux!
> 
> I ran around the house in a panic and looked in all the places I might 
> have left it when I got home but no camera. Having descended into a 
> headless chicken impersonation, I jumped back on the bike and set off the 
> way I had come home. After about half a mile I came across it peacefully 
> sitting right in the middle of a gravel path unmarked and apparently 
> enjoying the view. My son and I cycle on the path regularly and I estimate 
> that about 20 people walk past in an average hour so the fact that nobody 
> saw it and picked it up is incredibly.
> 
> I don't believe in luck but I think I've got a four standard deviation M9.
> 
> Neil
> 
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