Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, I joined the list to find out more about Leica cameras and which £$%^@ adapter to use to mount my Hektor on my Visoflex. Finding out all that stuff took just a few months of patient listening: on my part, to shift though all the mountains of posts; on your part, to listen to all the obvious questions I posted. I stayed on the list because of all the great advice and comments about photography in general, from developing film to developing countries, that abounds on this madcap list. I use Leica Ms because I love the viewfinder. It allows me to view the world in a natural way. As I have said before, it is like walking around with a pair of cropping "L"s with a shutter and film back attached. I use Leica lenses because they fit on my M camera. Some lenses I do not like and some lenses I do. I had a 21/3.4 which I found to be too flare prone wide-open and too slow when used at f4 where it flared less (its new owner is very happy). I had a 90/2.8 which also had flare problems(its new owner is very happy). I sold them both down the river (geographically speaking). I also had a 35/2 pre-asph which I loved but eventually sold to buy a 35/1.4 Asph as I found myself running out of speed with the 35/2 (its new owner is very happy). All this is to say that for me, Leica is a camera, a tool. It works, I smile, I take pictures. It does not work, I cry, I fix it or sell it period! Now bicycles....... John Collier > From: "Peter Choy" <pmcchoy@earthlink.net> > > So what's > the LUG all about, besides Leica as sacred object? We are all engaged > in collective myth-making.