Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information