[Leica] "It has a big red dot on it...."

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

I teach literature and creative writing at Adelphi Univ. on the Isle of
Long.  We have an MFA program which is what we are recruiting her for. She's
quite talented.

I like my IIIf. I'm thinking more along the lines of, how bad do you want
that A?

V

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> 
wrote:

> Vince,
>
>
> My M4 doesn't have the red dot.   Perhaps you could trade her your IIIf for
> it....
> What and where do you teach?
>
> Robert
>
>
> On May 21, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:
>
>  Anecdote: I took out to lunch a potential new student and her father
>> today;
>> she's likely coming to our program. Then she came back to my office to
>> handle some class registration stuff. Saw my IIIf (which needs repairs) up
>> on the shelf. "I have a camera that looks something like this," she said.
>> "It was a gift from my grandmother."  I showed her the rear of mine and
>> said, does it have two holes to look through or one?  "One," she said.
>>
>> "Does it say Leica," I now ask, feeling a bit like the wolf in Little Red
>> Ridinghood.  "I don't know," she says, "I basically just put it away as
>> some
>> kind of antique."
>>
>> I figured it was an M2 or M3 as they are closest "one-hole" relatives to
>> the
>> IIIf visually; unless it was a Canon or some other 1950s rangefinder. I
>> sat
>> down and started up the computer to take care of her registration issues.
>>
>> "It has this BIG red dot on it," she says suddenly. I stop typing.  "Bring
>> that with you in the fall," I tell her. "I'll show you how to use it."  My
>> fangs are dripping now. "Does it have a lens?" I say, backtracking.  "Oh
>> yes," she says. "I think there are two."
>>
>> You'll find me in my office baying at the moon, I almost say.
>>
>> Was it the M4 or the M6 that was the first to have the red dot?
>>
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