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Subject: [OM] [OT] A shaggy dog story from the Kiron Klub
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:56:05 -0400
I spotted this little gem on the Kiron Klub's email list.  Probably 
lifted from somewhere else.  Not Olympus but I thought y'all might enjoy 
it... especially John H, Clint and Mark.
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The River Sage.


Once upon a time, many years ago  in Kyoto, there lived a very poor
woodcutter who lived along the shores of  the Katsura River. The reason 
the woodcutter was poor was because he was always  taking pictures with 
his beat-up  black eyelevel  Nikon F and not  cutting much wood. One day 
when he happened to actually be cutting wood, the  neckstrap of his 
camera broke, and it fell  and sank into the dark and murky  flows of 
the river. Completely heartbroken to loose his faithful and long time 
companion  the woodcutter sat down on the bank of the river with tears 
streaming down his face.

After an unknown amount of time had  passed, the wood cutter realized 
that there was an old man standing in front of  him in the waters. The 
woodcutter did not know how long the old man had been  watching him and 
felt uncomfortable noticing that there were water plants in the  old 
man's hair and beard and that he wore strange clothes of reeds and water 
  lilies. He was starting to think  that a portrait of such a weird man 
might get  him first place in the monthly photo contest of Asahi Camera 
Magazine when all  of a sudden,  the old man who was actually the spirit 
of the river spoke  out, "What have you lost?" "I  have lost my precious 
camera" replied the  woodcutter,  to which the old man responded by 
submerging into the depths  of the  river. This took the woodcutter
completely by surprise and  he  sat there not knowing what to do for a 
few moments but the man soon emerged from  the water again holding a 
beautiful new-in-box condition silver-chrome Nikon  S3/2000 and asked 
him, "Is this your camera?".

Most Japanese  in the old days were honest so the woodcutter answered 
"No, mine is a bargain  grade black F". To this the old man silently 
sank into the water again and then  reemerged holding a Golden Nikon FA 
with matching lens and box and instructions  and an unfilled eternal 
warranty card and asked "Is THIS your camera? The   woodcutter had never 
seen such a camera before and was still honest so he  answered, "No I 
only use manual exposure." The old man sank into the waters a  third 
time and this time came back with the wood cutter's old and trusty 
eyelevel F. Delighted to see his camera again the woodcutter
exclaimed,"Yes, thats my Nikon!"

"You are a good man", said  the spirit of the river, and gave the wood
cutter back his F which was now  miraculously CLA-ed, and in addition
the silver S3 and the gold FA as well  as a drab brown and gray 50th
anniversary F5  all in an expensive   Billingham bag to carry home. The
woodcutter sold all of the new stuff on  Ebay with the "buy it now "
option and made enough so he didn't have to cut  wood for a while and 
could spend all of his time in the darkroom of his hut.

The woodcutter's  neighbor who was not such an  honest man happened to 
hear of this lucky episode and took his old Canon F1 that  he hardly 
ever shot with  anymore because he  was now an EOS user, and  went to 
the same place along the river and tossed the poor camera in. After what 
  seemed like a long while, the old man spirit of the river  emerged 
from the  waters holding the F1 with a sad look on his face and said, 
"Sorry we  don't service these anymore".

Chuck Norcutt


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