Re: [Leica] an idea for a contest

[Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>]

I think Brian's original idea of a contest is the best one.  I'd like to
think that now that I just paid for my new BMW,  I am suitably short of
cash and therefore deserving of the prize, but since I already own 2 M6s,
perhaps there may just possibly be someone more deserving of the prize than
me.  [I don't know the emoticon for tongue implanted extremely in both
cheeks, but please insert one here!] 

But I would like to participate in the contest nonetheless.  A great way to
steer the discussions into something quite positive.

Dan C.

At 08:23 AM 10-10-00 -0500, Bill Satterfield wrote:
>give it tot he guy in Europe that has been posting about needing one but
little
>or no money. If not why not start a LUG pool and buy him a used M6 with a
lens
>and send to him. I would contribute. I have deleted his posts.
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>Brian Reid wrote:
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>> I have a Leica IIIf, red dial, with 3 lenses (35/3.5 Summar, 50/2.8
>> collapsible Elmarit (I think), 90/4 Elmar), 3 finders that I believe are
>> called "imarect" (they attach to the flash shoe). I also have a Tower
>> 135/5.6 for it that is not wonderful. The 50/2.8 is an unbelievably good
>> lens and the finders, especially the 50 finder, are amazingly wonderful.
>>
>> I am the second owner of this camera; I bought it used around 1970 from a
>> Baltimore Sun photographer who was retiring. The Sun permitted the use of
>> Leicas in those days; most papers didn't. I have shot about 2000 rolls of
>> film with it through the years, mostly Tri-X. The camera looks like what
>> you'd expect it to look like after being owned by a newspaper photographer
>> and then me. Not a museum piece, but not damaged in any way.
>>
>> I have an M6 now, for which I am very thankful. So I don't use the IIIf any
>> more. I don't believe in owning cameras that I don't use. But this old IIIf
>> means a lot to me, so I don't want to sell it. However, I think I might be
>> willing to give it away as the prize in a Leica Users Photo Contest. Before
>> I announce such a contest I'd like to see some discussion about what sort
>> of contest it should be and what restrictions I'd place on the winner. For
>> example, I don't think any working or retired professional photographer
>> should be eligible to win. My goal here is twofold:
>>     1. To get this camera into the hands of some needy person who will
>> really use it, instead of putting it in a display case. An engineer with a
>> mortgage who lives in Arizona is probably not needy; a student who lives in
>> the former East Germany and who works in a grocery store is probably needy.
>> But only if he's really going to use it.
>>     2. To increase the amount of discussion about photography, instead of
>> cameras, in this forum. I'm absolutely delighted at the pictures that some
>> of you post; I keep hoping that someday I'll have something new I'm willing
>> to show you all (I'm very proud of my old work, but I haven't managed to
>> take a picture that makes me quiver in a long time). Maybe this contest
>> would stir the pot.
>>
>> Any ideas for rules? I have a pretty good idea of who I'd want the judges
>> to be, but the decision would be based both on photographic quality and on
>> need. I want the entire setup to go to the same person, rather than having
>> the kidney go here and the liver go there and the corneas go over there.
>>
>> Brian Reid
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