Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No Walt, when I bought my pristine Contax IIa from a hock shop I was a Buck Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corp. My fellow Jar Heads were buying Argus C3's. Guess who made the best investment? I added a used Leica IIc w/Leicavit when I was making about 60 bucks a week as a new hire. It took me a long time and a lot of saving to eventually buy a new M2 and then an M3 and so on. Bud Walter S Delesandri wrote: > Hi, Bud, and good for you. > [Snip] > > ... which I assume you can afford (not many of the workin' folk > could afford Contax or LTM as amateurs in the fifties-- by definition > you were or are in a top income group) > [Snip] > > Walt >