Please help me look cool!

[Keith]

That's it! just say leica has the public approval of a seal ........

That was very good!


This guy looks like someone who spends far too much time browsing our classifieds.

 

[johannielscom]

But seriously OP, I say you take that rickety Leica of yours and shoot her a portrait that will soften her harsh opinion of your camera. (Check: You know you did it when relatives apart from her parents wanna have a print of it too...)

And if that does not work I'd say let that chick magnet Leica roam free and every time it attracts someone tell her you're not interested in any of 'em, because of her...

If that don't do it, just marry the Leica!

 

[Sparrow]

That was very good!


This guy looks like someone who spends far too much time browsing our classifieds.

Thanks .... I thought it was joe in his minimalist period ........

 

[Ezzie]

Damn you, thread! Now you made me go searching...


Jennifer Connely, oh mama!

Ooooh dear. I never thought I've been missing owning a Leica until now.

 

[Keith]

Be still my beating heart!

 

[Rogier]

Its not the camera but your behavior that puts her off when you have the darn thing with you...

 

[Sparrow]

Babe with Leica = cool.

... so it look like the consensus of the board is that the OP considers a sex change?

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Carry a Speed Graphic with a Graflite flash that has the 7" reflector.
Then, you will look cool.

Once in a very great while fanboys and girls of Star Wars will ask about the lightsaber attached to the camera...

Phil Forrest

 

[furcafe]

This is very true in my experience, though I would expand it to include nerdy younger guys. 90% of the time that somebody hits on my camera, it's a dude. Women are much more likely to hit on a Polaroid, TLR, or Holga.

All I ever attracted with my Leica were icky old guys.

 

[ferider]

She will not be seen in public with me if I'm carrying the Leica and only puts up with my Olympus XA because it will pass for a digital point-and-shoot from a distance.

John, I think you need a bigger lens.

 

[micromontenegro]

Everybody and his uncle shoots a Leica. Get a Nikon RF and voilà! Instant cool!

 

[froyd]

It's not the camera, it's the lenses. I'm sure your wife's aspersion on the subject of you coolness stem from a deep resentment toward the thousand plus dollar optical jewels that adorn the camera when her ears, neck and fingers would like some jewels of their own!

 

[back alley]

Thanks .... I thought it was joe in his minimalist period ........

i would never wear a beret...

 

[johnamazement]

LOL! Or perhaps that all hope is lost unless he's the Bradster.

Well if I sell all the camera gear I may be able to pay a small deposit on the plastic surgery/sex change but that would rather defeat the point!

 

[johnamazement]

Well this one's digital so it must be cool! Can't seem to find the strap lugs though.

 

[gekopaca]

An old proverb in photography says:
"Women put their hands on cameras as they lay them on men"
If the proverbial wisdom is right, that's what we can see in this discussion:

WRONG :

RIGHT :

I guess there is another proverb that says sexual preferences of women according to whether they choose a black paint Leica or a silver one, but I can't remember.

 

[Sparrow]

Look what you're missing out on though!

... spooky, they could be brothers ...

 

[Steve M.]

Maybe you need one of those checkered hats and a vest w/ about 100 pockets too, just to round out the fuddy duddy look. If you're gonna do something, go all the way.

 

[skibeerr]

Penelope in Volver...........no camera bling there. She's got everything she needs.

http://www.ausde.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/volver-penelope.jpeg

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Carrying one camera isn't going to make you cool. Not even two. You need serious gear, like this

Still needs the baseball cap and the pony tail.