Good story!
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 1:56 PM
Subject: [OM] [OT] A shaggy dog story from the Kiron Klub
>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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