Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tell me you guys, what has this bloke done wrong? Some of you are trying to be just a pack of arrogant shits. What does it matter, how much equipment one has, or how much of it is used. In my earlier days , I had stacks of Leica equipment I never used. I just liked the look of it. I used a few cameras which I liked to use the best, the other ones ,including accessories, stayed on the shelf. George asked a question, that's what the LUG is about. Isn't It? A few seemed to know this and gave sensible replays. but some others..... Regards, Horst Schmidt (Owner of still quite a lot of never used leica stuff) Steve LeHuray wrote: > > 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? > >> > >> > >> > >