Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just as I was about to send email saying how pleasant the list had become..... Anyway just a silly email to refocus on the pleasures to be had with a Leica Camera: Went to our local art fair and took along my M4 ( Curt Miller if you are here - this used to be YOUR M4)- I took one light meter reading at the beginning of the excursion and it was truly a joy to wonder from booth to booth taking pictures - almost point and shoot. I had an older gentleman come up to me and ask if this was a Leica! We had a pleasant time discussing the evils of auto everything cameras. I was taking a pic of an unusual brick design on one of the older buildings here in Syracuse and a rather weathered old woman came up and asked what I was up to " why are you taking pictures of such an old building" Taken off gaurd I forgot to ask If I could take her picture!! The next day it was off to the antique fair for more of the same - alas no antique cameras of interest ( last year a nice baby Rollei which I DIDN'T snap up). thought someone would ask about my antique but this didn't happen. It was fun to wander around the tents taking pictures of other peoples junk. Used XP-2 and HP5+ and all the pics were decently exposed. The only extravagance that I used was a newly acquired M grip and wrist strap that really made holding the camera and browsing easy. ernie nitka