Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Honest, this really happened today. I was walking to lunch across the > campus when I thought I saw one of my 16 year old students holding a black > camera with a Red Dot! Sure enough, she had a Leica Mini-Zoom. She said it > was her dad's "old camera" and apologized for it. Sensing a budding LUGGER I > whipped out mine (M3/35 Summi) and she said that she had asked for just such > a camera for Christmas. After the ritual portrait shootout we went our ways > untill we next meet (Tomorrow at B period). Hey, it's Marin County. Santa > probably has M3's in his BMW. My introduction to Leica was from the wife of the Latin/Greek teacher in high school. No, I didn't have a Leica anything then, but I sure was hooked. It wasn't until 12 years later when I eventually bought myself a Leica (a 1957 M3)