[Leica] IMG: Thee daily Struggle

[Gerry Walden]

Thanks Jim. My wife and I were in the city of Bath when I saw a secondhand M3 2 stroke in a window. I was drooling over it and she said “Oh, for Gods sake just buy the bloody thing, you have wanted one for long enough”. I went in to the shop and agreed to buy the camera but (of course) had no lens. The guy must have taken pity on me (or maybe my wife) and suddenly produced a old Summicron at an incredibly low price and almost threw it in to the deal - and I was off.
Leicas did not command such high prices in those days, and that camera did me for a couple of years. I traded it in for a M6 after a while and, as they say, the rest is history.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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> On 4 Jan 2020, at 23:43, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
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> Very nice,  Gerry.  You started off strong.  I started out with a 50mm Coated Elmar, which was all I could afford.
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> On 1/4/20 4:12 PM, Gerry Walden via LUG wrote:
>> I have been scanning some older films, and this is from one of the first films I shot with a Leica. It was probably about a week or two after I bought my Leica M3 and was taken using Ilford 400 Delta. The lens was an old 50mm Summicron which was all I could afford at the time.
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>> https://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/index/I0000D0oUWBnIO4A <https://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/index/I0000D0oUWBnIO4A>
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>> Hope you like it!
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>> Gerry
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>> Gerry Walden
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