Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Vince, I loved my M5! I sold it to finance the M8, but I sincerely regret that sale. Specially now that I decided to (partially) go back to film... And yes, I believe the M5 is the first M with TTL metering. All the best from the south of France! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 26 f?vr. 10 ? 07:03, Vince Passaro a ?crit : > I read on flickr of the jet blue adventure but i'm not clear on why > this > leads to your not keeping batteries in the camera? The M6 has > Leica's first > TTL meter, is that right? Was it or the M5 (not counting the lovely > CL of > course) the first M series with a meter? > > [ Totally off the point, I have yet to see anyone on the LUG cop to > owning > the much deplored M5. How bad can they be? When you find them, they > ain't > cheap; but nobody seems to own one either. ] > > Bharani, back to you: lovely b&w of the elderly woman. when you > post more > photos on the LUG gallery and want people to check them out put in > the link > again because I'd have to go looking for your original post to get > back to > your pages. I think. I could be wrong. Maybe since you're posting > now your > stuff is on the front page of the general site? > > As you can see I'm ignorant of much, being relatively new myself. > Though I > did sort of accidentally by imputation refer to Rabs as > "Calvinistic" today. > Tomorrow: "reckless sybarite." Keep 'em guessing I say. > > Vince > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:57 PM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> many thanks dear friends for the warm welcome. >> i am a neurologist in boston, massachusetts. >> >> been on flickr for some years, also as scleroplex. >> and i've always loved leica m cameras and glass. >> >> but with the financial state of doctors these days >> i can afford just one camera and one lens. >> >> so i have an M6 Wetzlar and a 50mm Summilux >> >> that i use without any batteries due to a near arrest >> on jetblue :-)) >> >> see http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/2607031584/ >> >> have just put up a few more photos on the lug gallery >> >> best wishes, >> bharani >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information