[nikomat 38223] Re: 金の斧じゃなくってFA

[Shinsaku HIURA <shinsaku@mnx.jp>]

ひうらっす．

面白いっす．
ディテールがよく出来ていて．．
落ちもいい．

＃この話の元ネタはもともと海外由来だっけ？

ところで，この手の話題がＯＦＦで出たのは漠然と覚えているんですが
どういう行きがかりでそういう話になったのか忘れました．．．

At 20:45 03/06/12 +0900, you wrote:
>すぎやま　です
>京都のオフミで川沿いを歩いていた時に馬込さんが言っていた「金のFA」のネタを
>英語にして向こうのニコン関係のMLに投稿したところ
>評判が良かったのでこちらにも出しておきます。
>勝手に使ってすみません。
>オフミで仕入れたことは告白してあります。
>
>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 by complete 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".
>The End.