[Leica] A newbie here..

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

Hey Alex--

We're looking forward to the pictures.

Good to have you here.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/

On Dec 12, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Alex wrote:

> Hello all.
> I'm a newbie to Leica and to RF in the whole, just got registered  
> here, willing to introduce myself.
> My name is Alex, I'm from Israel. Used to be a long-term SLR  
> shooter jumping over from Minolta to Canon professional systems,  
> until about 2 years ago took a leap into large format (4x5) and  
> never looked back so that my Canon setup used to spent about 95% of  
> the time in the closet. Besides, it took me several years to  
> realize that the "latest and greatest" gear isn't always the  
> optimal solution. I became quite reluctant of getting out my Canon  
> and lugging it around, even though owing high-end analog camera and  
> some nice L line optics. In the past I enjoyed challenging myslef  
> physically and mentally lugging 15 kg backpack full of Canon  
> throughout the world even on business trips, but lately getting  
> realized that nor fast and quite AF, neither super-sophisticated  
> metering or super-speed machine-gun shooting doesn't bring me the  
> pleasure any more in my hobby. So the breaking point came few weeks  
> ago when I decided to quit my SLR adventure altoagther and convert  
> to something much more manageable and intimate that will not be a  
> burden for my family either in family strools or trips but yet  
> provide an adequate quality. After quite a deliberation between  
> jumping to an MF rangefinder or remain in 35mm world I made up my  
> mind to stay with 35mm to avoid the necessity to change my entire  
> flow. Then were two weeks of online "research" of RF world,  
> equipment, shooting technique, etc..became an active member on RFF  
> (rangefinderforum.com), "spamming" apug.org with my RF-related  
> hesitations...until realized that in that or another way I will  
> have hard time to get my Leica lust calm down....
> So two days ago I managed to pick a nice Summicron 50mm/2 (current  
> version) which is on its way to me right now and just a few hours  
> ago I had a pleasure to purchase a nice M6 of LUG fellow Hank  
> Kellner (he offered the camera for sale here also few days ago).  
> Did not realize Hank is a well known person not only on LUG but  
> also in literature world, but that turned to be a nice surprise to me.
>
> So I'm welcoming myself here on LUG..;-)
>
> Sincerely, Alex
>
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