[Leica] Re: First user.

[Ken Wilcox <klw.51@comcast.net>]

Welcome to the LUG. Be careful to guard your wallet now that you are a 
Leica user. This cameras are very addictive.

Ken Wilcox

At 10:58 AM 03/08/2002, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I'm new in this forum and like to share my first experience with Leica.
>
>I encountered with leica user when I was doing my street photo. I saw a 
>guy with just
>look like 'toy' camera sneak-up a shoot to couple---who were showing 
>affection to each
>other in the busy street---with unbelievably fast. I didn't even see where 
>he hid his
>'toy' camera. I was amaze. So I approached that guy and starting 
>conversation. His name
>Gordon, I don't know if he is in this forum. Man, if you are here---thanks 
>to you for
>enlighten me :). Finally I found out that what I thought 'toy' camera is a 
>Leica M4-2,
>which is pretty much beat-up.
>
>So after doing my homework with research what kind Leica for me. The next 
>month I bought
>myself Leica M3 with 50mm f/2 Summicron-M lens. When I got the M3, I was 
>not too
>enthusiastic with this camera; first---it so small in my palm, 
>second---it's old, way,
>way older than me, third---no metering and fourth---I found viewfinder the 
>M3 was
>difficult for me since I wear glasses.  I've happened Nikon user from the 
>first time I
>own my first camera. I bought F2AS as my first camera and F5 as my back-up 
>body with
>mostly prime lenses. So manual camera is not new for me. Actually I prefer 
>manual than
>auto-focus camera.
>
>So to make this story short, I took M3 out headed to friend's house. It 
>was night when I
>got there. With only existing light inside house, and slow shutter speed. 
>I believe it
>was around 1/8 to 1/30 with f/2. My experience with my Nikon with this 
>kind slow shutter
>without tripod, the pictures will be smooth, shake and blur. But what the 
>heck, I did the
>shoot anyway. So the next day when the negative came back---I was 
>amaze---Holy crap! me
>said to myself. All the pictures, which I took last night, were sharp. NOW 
>I AM HOOKED!
>So after long battle to justify the expense for new body Leica. I bought 
>for me chrome
>Leica M6 TTL with .72 viewfinder.  As I am right now is in process to be 
>buddy with this
>camera and go out more. Thanks.
>
>Lapiga Ginting
>
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