[rollei_list] Re: Karl Heitz, RIP (Query: Mechancial Cameras)

  • From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:55:50 -0400

On Monday, April 11, 2005, at 10:49  PM, Douglas Shea wrote:

> My father gave me a 9d for my thirteenth birthday (he was already a 5 
> and 6b user). I am such a hopeless Alpa fanatic that on my first visit 
> to NYC when I was fifteen, with all that NY has to offer the tourist, 
> I was insistent that my first order of business was to visit Karl 
> Heitz back when he was in the D&D Building. I spent the entire 
> afternoon there and he could not have been more gracious to a snotty 
> nosed kid with obviously very little money to spend; he very patiently 
> brought out just about every lens and accessory available for the 
> cameras for me to handle. I think I ended up buying a braided leather 
> neck strap, but remember the experience like it wasyesterday.
>
>       Cheers,
>       Doug


Wow. A memorable experience. Most enviable.


Ardeshir <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir>

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