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Old 03-10-2011, 08:16 PM
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Default Buys top of the line gear, but doesn't know how to use it...duh!
Grins...



http://www.petapixel.com/2011/03/10/how-not-to-photograph-the-stanley-cup-with-a-leica-m6/
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Old 03-10-2011, 08:23 PM
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Ahahaha lol... it's funny because he still kept trying to focus and refocus... on what?
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Old 03-10-2011, 08:25 PM
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Hahaha! What a dumbass - I love the perplexed look on his face.
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Old 03-10-2011, 08:26 PM
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Ahahaha lol... it's funny because he still kept trying to focus and refocus... on what?
"...damn, this viewfinder is really dark, I'd better go back to my Kodak Brownie."
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Old 03-10-2011, 08:39 PM
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awesome fail!
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See that is why I can not go out and video tape or even see people like this, I would have HAD to walk up to him and go HEY! Nice camera! Works better with the Cap off of it! Now spend another 1k and take reading classes to RTFM!

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It was funny alright but even funnier is this groups knowledge of Leicas. Leicas are RANGEFINDERS not SLR's one does not focus through the taking lens. He is having exposure troubles not focus as the viewfinder on a Leica is always the same brightness as the outside light.
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Old 03-10-2011, 09:42 PM
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It was funny alright but even funnier is this groups knowledge of Leicas. Leicas are RANGEFINDERS not SLR's one does not focus through the taking lens. He is having exposure troubles not focus as the viewfinder on a Leica is always the same brightness as the outside light.
Yeah, Elmo, we're just a bunch of common folk...so I guess it's just a double duh on us
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Old 03-10-2011, 09:51 PM
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Hey, at least the guy's in good company:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle250998.ece
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It was funny alright but even funnier is this groups knowledge of Leicas. Leicas are RANGEFINDERS not SLR's one does not focus through the taking lens. He is having exposure troubles not focus as the viewfinder on a Leica is always the same brightness as the outside light.
yes but he looked at it Three times! LOL after the second look, Moronville was in order...
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