Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don- Instead of your story ending in the typical .... "and they lived happily ever after!"- should we just say the from thence on out, everything was :Hunky-Dory"? :o) Dan ( HAs anyone compiled stories of how LUGgers met and fell in love with their Leicas?) Post ps- I bet it would make a rather interesting book- and a lot more interesting that some of the photo-books out there! Hey Ted! You might consider a project- "Our Cameras!- Our Lives!". I bet you'd get a lot of response!!! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:40 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: [Leica] I'll get my 'M', one dayS > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html