Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/17

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Subject: Re: Real Leica
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:22:27 -0700

At 10:18 PM 10/17/97 CDT, you wrote:
>LUL's,
>
>You've humbled me.  I just hated the feeling of being a bogus Leica man
>with only my generic Leica SLRs.  You know how it is when you can't hold
>your head up in the group and you feel you can only talk under a liberal
>interpertation of the group's stated purpose.
>
>BUT that has all changed - I am now real again.  I have ordered a silver
>(I like the silver) M6 that will be arriving next week.  I now will have
>to give some thought about the place it should occupy in the Billingham
>bag relative to the generic SLRs.  One of these days when I am flush I
>will even buy a lens for it (35/2.0 or 50/2.0 - probably the 35 as I like
>its "look" )
>
>Very strange, I really like the R8 and will probably will take most of my
>pictures with it - but I just have to have an M camera to use from time
>to time. Oh well, a few more bucks that the kids and grandkids won't get.
>
>
>Richard Hemingway

Eeegads Richard... you caved!

Jim