Leica & Stylus Around the World: Round #9

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Hi Shawn,



ftn is the said abbreviation for "fortnight" (If I believe the Wikipedia page about the FFF system)
For ftm it's for "fathoms" units !

Best regards,

Raphael

If you can fathom it, remember to convert "fortnight" to "fartnight" for Fred's part of its journey!
 

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If you can fathom it, remember to convert "fortnight" to "fartnight" for Fred's part of its journey!

I'm glad I got the camera first then!
 

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I had an interesting experience a few years back. I had received a shipment from B&H, emptied the goods from the box, and was deflating the airbags. Caught a distinct whiff of corned beef. It's a shame the air intake on that machine wasn't a few feet lower...
 

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Best to not be after Fred in the odor-uh, order. The last person who followed him was aghast!

I checked the records. Thee was no one named aghast involved in 'We all shoot one camera'.

tim in Baltimore.
 
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Nicholai: It seems you have the camera (Olympus Stylus). No hurry or worry, but we need to hear from you. We just need to confirm you have the camera and hear your plans to take your shots.

Team: Shall we give Nicholai a week before the rains start?

Here is the current list for the Stylus:

Camera #2 - Olympus Stylus Epic
Sile Ireland
Raphael Plougastel, France
rst Oestringen, Germany
kraker Breda, The Netherlands
nicholai Denmark ← Camera is most likely here.
Steve Smith Isle of Wight, UK
M.A. Longmore Hartsdale, NY
jnanian Warwick, RI
Rick A Emporium, PA
Jim17x Worth, IL
zsas Crystal Lake, IL
ambaker Poplar Bluff, MO
toro_mike Englewood, CO
cdholden, Nashville, TN
 

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Rain-in-the-face


The problem, if we curse him with the old 40-days-of-rains malediction, he will have even less opportunities to take his shots !
 

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nicholai Denmark ← Camera is most likely here.
Steve Smith Isle of Wight, UK

Looks like it might get lost on its way to me again... at least it won't be my fault... this time!


Steve.
 

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Hi Steve,

Have you informations about Nicholai has actually posted it to you ?


REgards,

Raphael
 

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Have you informations about Nicholai has actually posted it to you ?

No. I haven't had any contact. I assume I should be contacted before it is posted to confirm my address.


Steve.
 
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This appears to be the latest mention about the Stylus' whereabouts. From mid-June. If Nicholai received the camera, it would have been several weeks ago. I've sent him an IM and will send an email tomorrow.

Methinks the rains are coming. We used to have the hounds ready to go for something like this.
 

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Indeed, I seem to be (for the moment) the last one on this forum to have held the camera in my hands.
Before sending it off, I exchanged a few PMs with Nicholai, each answered within a few days at most.
After sending it, and letting him know I did, I have heard nothing. Well, that's not true, he acknowledged my PM that it was on its way. Nothing since.
 

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I checked the records. Thee was no one named aghast involved in 'We all shoot one camera'.

tim in Baltimore.

Aye, thou art speaking truth. I am not named aghast. And true it is, I am not a part of the Great Endeavour, but as a dog, which doth bark and make noise at sheep which do kneel for the one who barketh and maketh noise not from his mouth.
 

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Aye, thou art speaking truth. I am not named aghast. And true it is, I am not a part of the Great Endeavour, but as a dog, which doth bark and make noise at sheep which do kneel for the one who barketh and maketh noise not from his mouth.

Where the helleth is the chicken in that quote?
 

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I am grateful to thee for thy words of question, for I indeed disfavor'd the fowl.
Find below, it made right.


Aye, thou art speaking truth. I am not named aghast. And true it is, I am not a part of the Great Endeavour, but as a dog, like unto one which doth bark and make noise at sheep which do kneel for the one who barketh and maketh noise not from his mouth, and which sheep are spare'd only if such man as who stinketh hath first choke'd the chicken.
 
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Aye, thou art speaking truth. I am not named aghast. And true it is, I am not a part of the Great Endeavour, but as a dog, which doth bark and make noise at sheep which do kneel for the one who barketh and maketh noise not from his mouth.

ROTFL ! "...maketh noise not from his mouth". Excellent !


I think immediatly about medieval English when seeing "thee", I wish I could wrote something funny on this line but I don't masterize the language enough.

Methinks we shalt talk soon about the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antiochus !
 

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I suspecteth you hath masterized many other things. Thee king of masterization.

tim in san jose
 

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I suspecteth you hath masterized many other things. Thee king of masterization.

Be that otherwise known as the choking of the chicken?
 
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Nicholai PM'd me earlier today, and confirmed all is well with the camera. It is safe in his hands, and he has taken his shots. So please call off the goon squads for now.

Because of time constraints, he won't be able to get the camera off for a short while, but it should be on its way again shortly.

Thankfully, we are nothing if not a patient group!
 

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Nicholai PM'd me earlier today, and confirmed all is well with the camera. It is safe in his hands, and he has taken his shots. So please call off the goon squads for now.

Montjoie-Saint-Denis !
Sonnez hautbois, résonnez musettes !
 

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Nicholai PM'd me earlier today, and confirmed all is well with the camera. It is safe in his hands, and he has taken his shots. So please call off the goon squads for now.!

Don't you mean the chicken squads?
 
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