Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The images are sporadically good which is no small thing when you start, you don't know what you respond to so you try everything. Keep trying new things and you won't go wrong. Specifically, the image of the girl looking out with the binoculars? and the picture through the display case distorting the person on the right resonated the most with me. My first contact with a Leica. In 1971 I was in downtown Kansas City just down from the pinball parlor two blocks from the Federal Reserve. Felix camera had a beat up and I mean beat up Leica, no lens. The sales guy didn't want to show me the expensive camera($150). After a little persistence he let me look at it but cautioned me not to use the funny lever thing on the bottom at less than 1/30. It was love at first sight, the rangefinder was made for me. I didn't buy it the first time I visited it as I had to find a lens. There is a small camera shop just off Meyer Blvd that at the time sold Leica's and Alpa's. They still had a 50 DR with eyes. So, off to the bank and I haven't looked back. It was only three years later that I figured out a serial number starting in MP was something special. Don Dory dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html