Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ira: My Man! You're the only other LUGGER from Orange County. Doug in Laguna Beach - ----- Original Message ----- From: <ISILVERMN@aol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 9:16 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: Where We Post From. > For the past 10 years, it's been Irvine, CA, the original "planned community" > with its attendant virtues and vices. For the 10 years prior to that it was > Northridge, CA (yes, THAT Northridge); we had the good fortune to move south > a year before the quake. > > Prior to moving to the Left Coast in 1981, it was 19 years on Long Island, > with stops in the Bronx (NYU), Princeton (Grad school) and Cincinnati. > > Born in Brooklyn, spent my first 12 years there in Crown Heights. The > Dodgers left, then so did we. > > I've been a Leica user since 1970 (M4 with 35mm 'cron). Bought it for its > ease of focusing, quiet shutter and no mirror slap. I've added a few lenses > and accessories since, and find that the more I use it, the better I like it. > There's darn few pieces of hardware of any kind I can say that about! > > Best, > > Ira Silverman