[Leica] Your First Leica?

[Matt Filippini]

Since I contributed to the yearbook, I thought this thread might be a good time to check in after many years:

Back in 1988, when I was 22, I was a regular at a resale shop that would put photo stuff aside for me.  One day they had (from an estate they had bought out) a treasure trove set aside for me: an M5, 21/3.4, 50/1.4, 90/2.0, 135/2.8 kit, along with a Rolleiflex 2.8F.   Both cameras and all lenses had leather cases, all the hoods and caps, and a Leica tabletop tripod was included as well.

Although I couldn't responsibly afford it, I knew it was much too great a bargin to pass up, so I bought all of it.   $800 for the Leica kit and $50 for the 'flex.

All worked perfectly and still do; the M5 and 2.8F have both gone through one total overhaul each in the last 32 years.  I still use all of it regularly.

Matt Filippini

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Your First Leica?

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:
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> First I bought was an R3MOT - long gone to a lister.
> Also sold its successors (R4 & R8) a couple of years later.
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> Amities
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> 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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