Me too ! Probably will take 10 years to make it to market
They will never do it GiGi unless they can figure out how to give it 'invisible edges', which sounds unlikely to be achievable unless there is a breakthrough in quantum physics.
Lee
Me too ! Probably will take 10 years to make it to market
They will never do it GiGi unless they can figure out how to give it 'invisible edges', which sounds unlikely to be achievable unless there is a breakthrough in quantum physics.
Lee
That's a good point Lee. Plus, the little oatmeal flakes obscuring the view may ruin the experience for some.
https://fernglas-store.ch/contents/media/l_nlpure_3.jpg
Never held one however the design appears more functional than pretty. Chunky black focuser mechanisms set between juniper-green barrels that won't show the dirt.
Well ok.
But those strap lugs? Put a roof rack on an Aston DB5 why don't you o.
From the first moment I saw a photo of Swarovski's amazing NL, with its 'pinched', 'waisted' tubes, I knew I had seen that shape before. But where? This has been bugging me ever since.
And then the memories came flooding back. In the deep south of France (and probably all over France) in the beautiful Languedoc, in the early morning, you can see people walking around carrying different loads in their hands, shopping bags, brief cases, sheafs of newspapers and so on, but tucked under their arms, and held in place by arm pressure only, was a baguette.
Baguettes are a gorgeous bread loaf but is shaped long and narrow, much like a person's arm. When buying groceries and bread from the canal boat shop in Le Somail, I too walked back to our gite carrying our daily baguette in this same way (baguettes are best eaten fresh) and, by the time I got back, after juggling with other shopping, unlocking, opening and locking the gite door, then making my way upstairs to our accommodation, and all the time gripping the baguette with my arm so it didn't fall, it was pinched where my arm had squashed it.
On the long, ancient wooden table, where we ate (unless we sat outside on the balcony) there it was: a long, narrow shape with this 'waist' in the middle.
And by golly if you picked the baguette up by this squashed section, your hand fitted around it very comfortably.
So there it is, the inspiration for the shape of NL.
Possibly.
Lee
The pic is of our gite.
Lee, I have to tell you that in my -- I daren't really call it a review -- I made this very same comparison: EL = two tins of baked beans; NL = squashed baguette.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! ;-)
Best wishes,
Tom
From the first moment I saw a photo of Swarovski's amazing NL, with its 'pinched', 'waisted' tubes, I knew I had seen that shape before. But where? This has been bugging me ever since.
And then the memories came flooding back. In the deep south of France (and probably all over France) in the beautiful Languedoc, in the early morning, you can see people walking around carrying different loads in their hands, shopping bags, brief cases, sheafs of newspapers and so on, but tucked under their arms, and held in place by arm pressure only, was a baguette.
Baguettes are a gorgeous bread loaf but is shaped long and narrow, much like a person's arm. When buying groceries and bread from the canal boat shop in Le Somail, I too walked back to our gite carrying our daily baguette in this same way (baguettes are best eaten fresh) and, by the time I got back, after juggling with other shopping, unlocking, opening and locking the gite door, then making my way upstairs to our accommodation, and all the time gripping the baguette with my arm so it didn't fall, it was pinched where my arm had squashed it.
On the long, ancient wooden table, where we ate (unless we sat outside on the balcony) there it was: a long, narrow shape with this 'waist' in the middle.
And by golly if you picked the baguette up by this squashed section, your hand fitted around it very comfortably.
So there it is, the inspiration for the shape of NL.
Possibly.
Lee
The pic is of our gite.
Lee,
Just the idea of the NL design inspired by a "carried too long baguette" made me laugh )
It's very well spotted.
Don't try to carry a baguette too long under pouring rain either, you might end up with a bow D
One of the thing my sisters and I hated most when we were kids, was to go to buy bread at the bakery, as it was a 15mn walk (one way), coins on our hands, whatever the weather (and the weather wasn't much cooperative in the part of France we were living in ).
It's always surprising to see something so "usual" for French people, to become so loved by people from other countries.
But the baguette is slowly becoming something from the past somehow.
The baguette purchases has been divided by 7 in 100 years, half a baguette being the average daily "intake" by French, meaning some people don't eat any baguettes at all, even if it's kind of "culturally mandatory" for us to eat with most of our cheeses.
The change in Breakfast habits being one of the reason.
A lot of French workers still buy the traditional "baguette sandwich" for Lunch though.
That pic of NL certainly emphasizes the two 'monstrous carbunkles' or at least, toxic growths, that are the strap lugs. This is where my baguette theory breaks down.
Lee
I know you're being funny with an agenda, but monstrous carbuncles and toxic growths are silly.
I have both pre FP and FP and it doesn't make two dry beans of a difference. Your hands won't be there.
BTW, when I was young and dumb and . . . ahem, I lived on baguettes in Paris for a time. Jambon, brie, crudite. Social distancing not a problem. I couldn't afford anything else, lol.
Mark
There is no agenda Mark. This thread is just a bit of silly relief at a time when the pandemic weighs heavily on normal life, so, yes, the remarks about the FP system were nothing but silliness.
Paris is a wonderful place for many reasons and I have some fond memories of times there too.
Lee
It's all cool, Lee. I was thinking of Paris because a skinny little Slovenian won the Tour on Sunday! Unprecedented! Pretty good sprint for the stage, too.
All my best,
Mark
I know you're being funny with an agenda, but monstrous carbuncles and toxic growths are silly.
I have both pre FP and FP and it doesn't make two dry beans of a difference. Your hands won't be there...
There is no agenda Mark. This thread is just a bit of silly relief at a time when the pandemic weighs heavily on normal life, so, yes, the remarks about the FP system were nothing but silliness.
Lee