I feel like I called one of those numbers that charge by the minute. :-)
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / July 2, 2007 CE, at 7:00 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> Indeed - not gone yet as I'm waiting for the battery to charge. For
> the M8 of course.
> Just a few smug git comments though.
>
> There are instructions on how to unpack the M8 box properly. :-)
> In fact, the box is brilliantly designed.
> It does NOT have an auto transmission.
> There is a degree of reverence involved in opening it all up and
> handling it.
> (We are not worthy...)
> You place it on the table and just look at it for a while.
> It is a truly beautiful object.
> They sent me a black one.
> Ooooooh indeed.
>
> Then you open the lens package - 35mm Summicron 6-bit, brand new.
> You hold it and wonder how something that small can weigh so much.
> You gasp. Your hand trembles.
> This is jewelry. A Tiffany egg.
> It costs US$3,000 (street price).
> The satin finish of the metal; the snick of the stops; the whisper of
> the focus ring; the sheen on the glass; the perfect concavity of the
> rear element; the sheer gravity of it.
> None of this has anything to do with photography - it speaks to
> something deeper.
> Very, very much deeper.
> I think I'm in lerv.
> Help......
>
> After all that the Digilux 3 looks positively, well....Panasonic.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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