[Leica] Your First Leica?

[Ken Photo]

After years of drooling, I purchased a used M3 SS with 35 & 50 Summicrons and a 135 Hektor and a bunch of Visoflex stuff from the 90 year old father of a friend in 1992. Everything was in serious need of attention. Thanks to the LUG, I found Reinhold Mueller and sent everything off to him. The 35 wasn’t worth saving, so he kept it for parts and returned the body and 2 lenses looking beautiful. A few of years later, I added an M6 and over time various lenses. I then then committed the sin of trading the M3 in on a .85 M6. In 2002, I lost my mind completely and sold all my film gear for pennies on the dollar and went digital. When I hit 70, sanity started to return and I bought a used M246 but quickly sold it again. For some reason it just didn’t work for me. A couple of years later, I liked the sound of the M10, so after talking to Ken Hansen I bought an M10 and a couple of lenses from him. Due to a case of GAS, I now have the M10, 5 lenses and recently acquired M6 and M4-P. I’m not selling any of these!!!

Ken Lee
Leica M10, M6, M4-P & Olympus OM D EM1Mk ii
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> On Apr 8, 2020, at 7:16 AM, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> First I bought was an R3MOT - long gone to a lister.
> Also sold its successors (R4 & R8) a couple of years later.
> 
> Amities
> 
> Philippe
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>> Le 7 avr. 2020 à 23:26, Richard Man <richard at richardman.photo> a écrit :
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>> 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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