Roll Call

[John Servais <jservais@nwhouse.com>]

John Servais, 56
Born and grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Married; one son - now a charming 13 year old
Started photography on trip to Colorado at 15.
Shot for all High School and College publications.
Got M3 in spring of 1960.  Only use Leica since.

Got pro start as part time staff photographer for Green Bay Press Gazette 
1960 to 63.  Of course covered Packer games.  Shot Lombardi running his 
games from a few feet away.

Leica school in Wetzlar in 1964.
Stints as darkroom techy, freelance advertising and newspapers.

Peak of modest photo carreer was a one man show of all Leica color work 
at Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, November 1974.  Had 20 some 
slides made into prints & hung on gallery walls.  Leitz, NJ, loaned us a 
projector and we back projected 60 some slides 9 feet high from an 
adjacent room onto a mylar screen built into a temporary gallery wall.  
Folks walking into the gallery actually first thought the projections 
were prints till the picture changed.

Ended pro work in 76.  Still shoot for personal pleasure.
Have lived in Bellingham, Washington since then.
Various jobs - mostly selling - in computer industry.
Was Mac consultant for 8 years till Internet slid in.
Now marketing and sales for a local Internet provider.

Still just one M3 body
Summicron 35 f2 is my normal lens
Love Hector 135 f4.5 - favorite for candids
Summaron 35 f3.5 bug eye - still surprising color quality
Summicron 90 f2 - Canadian - super lens, but big & heavy
Viso III with Elmar 65 f3.5 - haven't used in years
Looking for the right 90 tele Elmar f2.8
Wish there was a digital back for these wonderful lenses.

Use Leica RF instead of SLR; Mac instead of Wintel; prefer sail over 
power boats; etc...  Tend to be in those 5% sub groups.

Enjoy mostly reading the LUG - lurking, I guess.  Some great nuggets of 
advice here - and great opinions.  Am becoming inspired by your great web 
sites to do my best on my own.