Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. - --=_14465A44.2A4B228F Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline I purchased my first Leica (a M-3) in 1957. I agonized for months before choosing the M-3 over a IIIF. I still own that camera, use it regularly, now 40 years later (it's in near perfect condition) it has become very collectible. In my Leica collection, among others, I have a couple of IIIF's, and I couldn't agree more, "lovely to look at, but a little awkward to use. I wouldn't trade my M-3 for anything. I purchased a M-6 not to long ago, and returned it. I really like the M-3 better. I'm sure others wouldn't agree, but those are my thoughts on the subject. Dave Stedman - --=_14465A44.2A4B228F Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: by atl.com (4.1/3.1.090690-) id AA19930; Tue, 6 May 97 20:56:16 PDT Received: from smtp1.nwnexus.com by mail1.halcyon.com (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.5/10Nov96-0444PM) id AA05067; Tue, 6 May 1997 20:56:51 -0700 Received: from mejac.palo-alto.ca.us by smtp1.nwnexus.com with SMTP id AA27567 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <dstedm@halcyon.com>); Tue, 6 May 1997 20:56:13 -0700 Received: by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us id AA18103; Tue, 6 May 97 20:15:35 -0700 Received: by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us id AA18097; Tue, 6 May 97 20:15:32 -0700 Received: from boulder49.dialin.netone.com (boulder3.dialin.netone.com [206.83.104.3]) by finalcut.netone.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01398 for <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; Tue, 6 May 1997 21:15:29 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: Cyberdog/2.0a1 Message-Id: <AF955059-A4B78@206.83.104.49> Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Precedence: bulk Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 21:15:37 -0700 >From: "Jeff Segawa" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, segawa@nospam.netone.com Subject: LHSA, Collecting, etc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, May 6, 1997 7:02 AM, Paul Krzyzanowski <mailto:paul@research.bell-labs.com> wrote: >I joined the LHSA at the end of December 1996 and have yet to >receive a single issue. All I received thus far is a Leica >catalogue (which I found totally useless... just a collection >of classified ads). >Should I be expecting more? The regular LHSA newsletter is Viewfinder, which is lots better when it's not mostly taken up by coverage of the last get-together. Primarily aimed at the collector, it nevertheless does contain a tidbit here and there which might be of value to the user, and as a resource for finding folks who can restore or customize your gear, it's valuble. Also, I once wrote in a longish letter asking what all the fuss with the screw-mount Leicas was, if no one was using them to take pictures, and got back a very nice, thoughtful letter in reply. (In the end, I did manage to take a IIIc out for a shoot and was very grateful that we've advanced since that time :-) Lovely camera to behold; really a fuss to operate by today's standards! I don't have much urge to own a collection, myself, though I'm always happy to look at someone else's: Give me a mint-in-box MP, and I'll probably try to very quickly turn it into a slightly used M6 plus lenses, and a whole lotta money :-) Jeff By the way, I'd be most interested in hearing firsthand impressions from folks who owned Leica gear at around the time that the M3 was first introduced: Was it met with any hostility, as somehow being too un-Leica-like? - --=_14465A44.2A4B228F--