[Leica] LHSA membership

Thu Jul 4 23:02:26 PDT 2019

Few if any of the annual meetings were out of the United states. Wetzlar was the first I think in 2006. That was a big Jump from a few hours in an airplane or driving to San Antonio! My first two meetings  in Denver in 1998 and Chicago in 1999 were in medium priced hotels but with special group deals as can be expected.  The mattresses at both motels were both half thickness I never knew they made those you slept ok but you knew you were not in The Ritz. We discussed that on the Lug as to do our members need cut rate deals in the deep suburbs way out of town from the city we were visiting with half thick mattresses? They decided on giving in-town hotels at not super cheap prices a try and plenty of people showed up. Years later in Santa Fe in 2007 we stayed at the famous La Fonda on the Plaza in the center of town and it was for sure over a hundred bucks a night but a group of people on their own stayed at a lower end motel down the street and it worked out ok. But going to Romania I didn’t know about I guess they figured that people flying across the ocean having bought a 7 grand Leica M digital must be doing ok in the cash department? Did they get a good turnout? I'm going to guess they did.
It seemed to me  by the time I came to New York in 2006 and stopped going to meetings the group has switched from being camera collection based to being User based. A lot of younger people (still guys for the most part) who were as interested in the results from their cameras as the cameras themselves; cameras they did not have a dozen editions of with off printed serial numbers..
Again I'll say I'm not a joiner I never joined I just got a magazine subscription but as a burgeoning Leica lover being involved with the Leica Society was the best thing I could have ever done. And it got me out of town at least once a year. And I loved going to the Leica factory itself then in Solms and meeting Andreas Kaufman and so on.

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Mark William Rabiner
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On 7/5/19, 12:59 AM, "LUG on behalf of Philippe via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

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    > Le 4 juil. 2019 à 18:22, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a écrit :
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    > Out of curiosity, I looked at the Romania trip they have on the web site—more than $7000 for 10 days, NOT including flights to Romania…that tells me something about the target audience.
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    > Cheers,
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    >> On 4 Jul 2019, at 14:00, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net> wrote:
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    >> LHSA stands for Leica Historical Society of America.  That’s the old name, although the logo is still being used.  The new name is The International Leica Society, and while there are still many interested in and use the old cameras*, it’s much more directed to shooting and processing, and all aspects of the technology associated.
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    >> *One member shoots with an M2, among other cameras.
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    >> I’ve enjoyed being a member and attending the events.  The annual meetings are good, but I really enjoy the Spring Shoots.
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    >> Jim Handsfield
    >> jhandsfield at att.net <mailto:jhandsfield at att.net>-
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    >>> On Jul 4, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
    >>> 
    >>> Same here. I was a member once upon a time, and participated in one of the events in New York during a visit, and in a trip to Wetzlar when I lived in Brussels (easy drive for me). But I noticed that the cameras were mostly fondled rather than used, with just a few of the participants really taking pictures of anything other than other people’s cameras. I believe that the late great Tim Abrahamsson was one of the people I met through the LHSA, but I am not sure. 
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    >>> If you are a collector rather than photographer, then LHSA is for you.
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