[rollei_list] Re: OT: Contax II

I know about that task during elections Marc, it's tiring really and you need 
special patience paying attention to the people, I think it's a good way to 
contribute to democracy the election day.

Thank you about Eddie Smoloff.-

Carlos 



--- El jue 6-nov-08, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> De: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Contax II
> Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fecha: jueves, 6 de noviembre de 2008, 7:21 pm
> At 03:07 PM 11/6/2008, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
> >Thank you very much Marc for the detailed info,
> I'll try to locate
> >Eddie Smoloff in Brooklyn.
> 
> Carlos
> 
> I serve as an officer of elections.  That meant that I was
> on my feet for 18 hours this Tuesday past and am still
> slowly regaining my wits.  Members of this List will be
> dismayed and, well, astonished to learn that I have to be
> NICE to everyone for those 18 hours.  It is emotionally
> draining for me to be NICE for that long when you just want
> to grab someone and shake them and to tell them to quit
> being a fool.  Oy Vey!  What's a guy to do?  I finally
> got myself together enough today to drive over to the
> Goodwill to drop off my wife's latest decisions of
> abandonment, to hit the local Library to pick up two
> DVD's they were holding for me (HIGH NOON and THE
> LONGEST DAY, for those interested in my taste in movies,
> though my all-time favorite is UNCONQUERED, in which Ward
> Bond plays my fourth-great-grandfather.)  Then I hit the
> Class Six (liquor) store at Fort Lee and came home.  I have
> managed to decipher five serial number queries, one of which
> was yours, over the past day, but I am simply out of energy
> until next week.
> 
> I will dig out the contact info for Eddie in a couple of
> days and post it here.  He is also great with Leica
> thread-mount cameras, due to his FED training.  The very
> last Contax II cameras made were those with a serial number
> beginning in O;  these were made during the Second World
> War.  When I bought one of these, I had Eddie overhaul it. 
> I would not have entrusted this camera to just anyone:  he
> has always done superlative work for me.  For the reasons
> set out above, prompt me if I've not posted the contact
> information by next Wednesday.  (Tuesday next is MY holiday,
> Veterans' Day, aka Armistice Day, and I shall celebrate
> it in some fashion.)
> 
> Daniel had suggested that Eddie served as Fedka's
> maintenance guy.  Fedka is Yuri Boguslavsky, a purveyor and
> authority on Soviet/Post-Soviet (SPS) cameras.  I know Yuri
> quite well but I do not know the answer to that.  The first
> Russian Camera List was destroyed by the disappearance of
> the owner;  its successor was destroyed by the devolution of
> Bob Shell.  We had a repair guy in the Ukraine who was
> active on those Lists, and perhaps that is the person Yuri
> uses.  I will ask him.
> 
> In any event, my suggestion is Eddie Smoloff:  fast,
> inexpensive, and VERY capable.  I have entrusted several of
> my most valuable cameras to his care, and he has done grand
> work.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> 
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