Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Reminds me of being accosted as a college student 1983. My bag full of Minolta SRTs XDs XEs and a gazillion lenses was stolen. Insurance gave me what appeared to a 19 year old to be a huge check. Took it to Citizen's Photo and a wonderful rep, Don Leap, turned something like 5 or 7 Minoltas and a scad of lenses and motors and strobes etc into ONE M4-P with a black MR-4 and a new 50 f2 and used fat 90 2.8. wait, Don, I had fisheye to super tele 87 1.7, VFC, etc etc etc and now? Alas. ONE CAMERA TWO Lenses STICK ON METER? WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAT? Went on holiday at Christmas to Hawaii (Oahu I was boring at time)....at the mall purchasing film from the Leica dealer camera store at Ala Moana (sp) Leaving store, bag of film, M4-P around neck when a gentleman from another culture walks up to me and literally started lecturing me about damaging an icon. "Look, I am a poor college student, this is my only camera, you can buy a new one right there at that store and seal it in a case keeping yours new forever" had NO impact on the man. I felt like an uncouth savage. I still have the M4-P. It has been to 5 continents and never failed. It probably has a couple million miles on it and looks like it. Poor guy would probably have me put to death if he know how much film I have run through that camera... Fast forwarding many years. Camera World here in Portland sold to Ritz (1990s). CW had a GOLD Pentax LX I acquired with the collectible inventory. I sold it (to a collector in Japan) with the stipulation that I run a roll of film through it (he made me wear white cotton gloves)... Here's to Leica users! Mark On Jul 17, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Richard Man wrote: > But it's also true that we film users (even though I do also use an > M9) get flack because we use film on this film. Go figure eh? > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> > wrote: >> NO! NO! NO! >> >> I'll bet that fewer than 10% of us own M8s or M9s. OK, maybe 20% of us. >> The >> LUG is the Leica User's List, but some of us don't even own Leicas. With >> one >> exception, a CL, all the Leicas I own were made before 1955. Dwight D. >> Eisenhower was President of the U.S. then. >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information