[nikomat 38224] Re: 金の斧じゃなくってFA

["N.Magome" <mgm@md.neweb.ne.jp>]

まごめです。

すぎやまさん：

大人の童話ですね。

> 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

これは私ではないっすね。

あと、エルマーの冒険とかありますよ。
では。

> 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.