[Leica] Your First Leica?

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

My first Leica was given to me by my uncle in the late 1960s, and was a IIIf with a Elmer 50mm f3.5 which I still have.

My first camera was a Kodak Retinette 1B, which I got in 1962 when I was 10 years old, which, too, I still have. My grandfather, who was the CEO of a bank at that time, actually made me save the money for over a year and a bit before getting it for me from London. In those days, a Deutschmark was equal to a Rupee - Nowadays, a Euro is equal to 82 Rupees. Talk about having good habits drilled into you at an early age!

Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 08-Apr-2020, at 02:57, 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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