Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Please. Be nice. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Steve LeHuray Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 11:06 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] OT reference material/equipment questions > Or, please...take some workshops. Learn how to expose film, process prints > and, finally, spend a lot of time learning how to take interesting pictures. > I don't mean to be rude, but you're accumulating a lot of expensive > equipment before learning 1) what it does and 2) what you want to do with it > and 3) what you *can* do with it. > > For a beginner, money spent on film and processing is the single most > valuable investment. Most people would be better off with a Pentax K1000 > and a couple thousand dollars of film. > > The other George > Most likely in a few months all of Georges new cameras will show up on e-bay saying something like "blah,blah,blah,....like new only used once." Or something like that. Steve Annapolis >> >> On 2001.03.12 20:17:38 -0700 George Kenney wrote: >> >> > I have no excuse for my budding Leicaholism. I don't know how to >> > take pictures, but I've now acquired in rapid succession 2 new M6 >> > TTLs (.58 and .85), 1 used M4-2 (btw from the notorious Canadian >> > retail shop of the notorious zoom lens episode -- they were quite >> > nice, I thought, and gave me an excellent price on an excellent >> > body), 6 Leica lenses and 1 Voigtlander lens. >> > >> > BUT THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH!! >> > >> > No, today I had to buy a Hassleblad 501CM w/ 80 CFE. [snip] >> > >> > Anyhow, I can't find resources for Hassleblad anything like the >> > fantastic resources for Leica on the web. Does anybody have any >> > suggested links, please? >> >> >> >