Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LeicaM6Guy@aol.com wrote: > > Hi All > I have just joined the mailing list and would like to introduce myself. My > name (believe it or not) is Bill Barnack. I just purchased a new M6 ttl .85 > body and 50mm 2.0 lens. I have wanted one for years and decided to buy > myself a 40th birthday present. As far as my last name goes I am going to > start to research my roots, I might be a long lost cousin of Oskar? (if so > everyone from the list who comes to my house for birthday cake gets a new > Leica) Hope to be able to add some info to the list, and just wanted to say > hello > > Bill You should have gotten a LTM (screwmount, Leica Thread mount) as you could then refer to it as "Barnacks Camera"! :) Cause if your M6 gets referred to as "Barnacks camera" there could be some cornfusion. I got my first M6 with 50mm 2.0 lens seven years ago and my Leica M system now dominates my photography. Hope you enjoy your photography with your Leicas as much as I do. I'll be getting some LTM's one of these days as you can get new lenes for them now and I am fond of the quality you get from modern Leica optics and less fond of nostalgia. I just think the "Barnack" camera, the "LTM" has stuff going for it compactness mainly that the M series don't got. Mark Rabiner