Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/08

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Subject: [Leica] Your first Leica
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 21:41:28 +0200
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Alice !

Have you ever realized you were born to use a Leica?

Just look ALICE - LEICA = Anagram

I married Alice, my wife, JUST FOR THAT !

 ;-)

WELCOME to this world of grain and pixels !

Amities

Philippe



> Le 8 avr. 2020 ? 21:32, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a ?crit :
> 
> Thank you for speaking up.  Posting is easy on the LUG Gallery and we all
> would like to see the world through your eyes.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:27 PM Alice Kroehle via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Two Leicas -
>> First was a gift from my aunt, the camera originally belonged to my
>> grandfather, who bought a new IIIF BD new in 1951/52.
>> The other is an M2 that was inherited from my dad, who bought it used in
>> NYC around 1959.  He said he had a IIIC where the shutter broke, and he
>> took it in to NYC to have it repaired.  A GI had brought the M2 back from
>> Germany after serving in WW2 and didn't understand the metric on the lens
>> (it was measured in cm in lieu of inches) and sold it.  My dad was an
>> engineering student at the time and the repair for the IIIC was roughly
>> equivalent to the cost of the M2.  For him it was a no-brainer.
>> I still use both of them.  Not bad for 2 cameras that are 60 - 70 years
>> old.
>> Still need to post something :(
>> Alice Kroehle
>> 
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