[Leica] Your First Leica?

[Howard Ritter]

My first was an M2-X (I think), at any rate w/o the self-timer. My parents got it for me for h.s. graduation, with a used Canon collapsible 50mm f/1.9 (IIRC) screw-mount lens. About 6 years later, seduced by the SLR concept, I sold it to buy a Canon FT-QL. I got a first-gen SL in the mid-70s. I still have it and will never part with it.

I returned to the RF fold in about 1980, when I became the keeper (analogous to what one does with a bonsai) of a DS M3 with DR Summicron. This too will go to my photographer son, who is burdened with my sentimentality and attachment to certain things that are imbued with a spiritual aspect for the owner, and will never part with it either.

God, is this unsociable distancing making me morbid, or what? 😉

—howard

> On Apr7, 2020, at 1726, Richard Man <richard at richardman.photo> wrote:
> 
> Just idle wondering, how many people still have their first Leica? and if
> you still have it, is it one of those "I will never sell my first love, or
> any Leica", or "I can let it go, but why?"
> 
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