Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:45 PM 9/2/00 +0200, you wrote: >There goes my bank account...down, again! AMEN!! Nathan, I have sadly sold my R8 lenses and even Ted's winder, etc. I have owned many M cameras and R's and in my opinion the best of them all, in many things, is the R8. I have never had a problem with them, it is much easier to find the "right" exposure with the three options, no flare in the VF, pictures with the 80/1.4 + lenses is much easier, etc. etc.etc. I think that it is a rugged camera, at least mine were. Probably a larger percentage of keepers than with the M. Easier loading and rewinding etc. Why sell the stuff?? I developed a bad back carrying it around and I have arthritis in the joints - but still moving at 73 this Nov. I went into debt farther than I have before and have ended up with: M6TTL silver-chrome - with red dot that I carry proudly!! None of that cruddy black tape for me!! (I have always liked the chrome bodies), with 24/1.8 ASPH, 35/1.4 ASPH and 90/2.0 APO/ASPH. This covers all the bases for me. I had the 24/2.8 ASPH before but like a fool I sold it. Didn't think I would ever get one again. HEY, I can actually pick up my camera bag now. I missed the unobtrusiveness of the M cameras more than I thought that I would. Pick up the R8 and everybody looks at you, shoot a pictures - CLICK, CLACK, WHIRRRRRR - and everybody looks at you again. I do have enough money left to take my wife out on a regular basis (and for out 53 wedding anniversary next week on the 12th -OPPS, her birthday is on the 4th) and to buy some film. It looks like this kit is something that I will be able to carry around as long as I can navigate, and you sure can't beat the quality. SORRY TED about selling the winder - tried to put it on the M6, didn't work. It spit at me when I boxed it up!! All this new equipment is sitting on my desk in front of me and is loaded and ready to go. Go out and shoot you say - heck, it has been 109F here, 64 consecutive days without rain, 34 days this year over a hundred. If I go outside the camera will melt. Company coming tomorrow for Vera's birthday and the camera will get a workout. Seriously it is the equipment I have been wanting for a long time and didn't think I ever could get it. BTW it is pinching my hobby budget a whole lot (can't but any more until ... I may not live that long!!) but it is not interfering with the family economics. It is bad form to tie up 40% of you income on camera equipment. I have owned the 24 and 35 lenses before but not the 90/APO and will be interested to see how it is. Off to Wisconsin next week, Door County. Have a great weekend, and in the US a great Labor Day holiday. Dick Hemingway Plano, TX