I spotted this little gem on the Kiron Klub's email list. Probably
lifted from somewhere else. Not Olympus but I thought y'all might enjoy
it... especially John H, Clint and Mark.
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The River Sage.
Once upon a time, many years ago in Kyoto, there lived a very poor
woodcutter who lived along the shores of the Katsura River. The reason
the woodcutter was poor was because he was always taking pictures with
his beat-up black eyelevel Nikon F and not cutting much wood. One day
when he happened to actually be cutting wood, the neckstrap of his
camera broke, and it fell and sank into the dark and murky flows of
the river. Completely heartbroken to loose his faithful and long time
companion the woodcutter sat down on the bank of the river with tears
streaming down his face.
After an unknown amount of time had passed, the wood cutter realized
that there was an old man standing in front of him in the waters. The
woodcutter did not know how long the old man had been watching him and
felt uncomfortable noticing that there were water plants in the old
man's hair and beard and that he wore strange clothes of reeds and water
lilies. He was starting to think that a portrait of such a weird man
might get him first place in the monthly photo contest of Asahi Camera
Magazine when all of a sudden, the old man who was actually the spirit
of the river spoke out, "What have you lost?" "I have lost my precious
camera" replied the woodcutter, to which the old man responded by
submerging into the depths of the river. This took the woodcutter
completely by surprise and he sat there not knowing what to do for a
few moments but the man soon emerged from the water again holding a
beautiful new-in-box condition silver-chrome Nikon S3/2000 and asked
him, "Is this your camera?".
Most Japanese in the old days were honest so the woodcutter answered
"No, mine is a bargain grade black F". To this the old man silently
sank into the water again and then reemerged holding a Golden Nikon FA
with matching lens and box and instructions and an unfilled eternal
warranty card and asked "Is THIS your camera? The woodcutter had never
seen such a camera before and was still honest so he answered, "No I
only use manual exposure." The old man sank into the waters a third
time and this time came back with the wood cutter's old and trusty
eyelevel F. Delighted to see his camera again the woodcutter
exclaimed,"Yes, thats my Nikon!"
"You are a good man", said the spirit of the river, and gave the wood
cutter back his F which was now miraculously CLA-ed, and in addition
the silver S3 and the gold FA as well as a drab brown and gray 50th
anniversary F5 all in an expensive Billingham bag to carry home. The
woodcutter sold all of the new stuff on Ebay with the "buy it now "
option and made enough so he didn't have to cut wood for a while and
could spend all of his time in the darkroom of his hut.
The woodcutter's neighbor who was not such an honest man happened to
hear of this lucky episode and took his old Canon F1 that he hardly
ever shot with anymore because he was now an EOS user, and went to
the same place along the river and tossed the poor camera in. After what
seemed like a long while, the old man spirit of the river emerged
from the waters holding the F1 with a sad look on his face and said,
"Sorry we don't service these anymore".
Chuck Norcutt
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