Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com>wrote: >... >... >... I don?t use a lot of Leica gear any more. ... the trade-offs between >Leica and Fuji/Sony are such that while I use Leica glass the bodies are simply >beyond me. >...this is such a friendly place that, even when I don?t have the time to devote to reading all the posts and viewing all the photos, I find it to be a kind of coming home. ==================================================================================================================== I feel the same on both counts. I used my first M3 continually for 40 years (later with another M3, M2R, and IIIf) until I retired and reluctantly (since it was my favorite camera ever) had to put it on the shelf since I was then without access to a darkroom and couldn't afford a Leica digital body. I thought I'd have to make do with my Canon 30D even though it was a bigger camera than I prefer, but the introduction of the Fuji X-E2 saved me. Now I have a handy rangefinder-sized body that I can carry around like my M3, but is as versatile as a reflex camera so I can use my legacy lenses from 20mm to 400mm or bellows & extension tubes. Even if I could afford a Leica digital M, it would limit me. My love of Leica rangefinders brought me to the LUG, and I'm grateful that I can participate here still even though I now use a non-Leitz body. I have a lot more scanning to do from my archive, and a great deal of it was shot with my Leicas. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt