Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/10

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Subject: RE: [Leica] So you want a new Leica M series Body?
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:38:28 -0400

"Aw, Honey, but the Barnack made me do it!" ;-)

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Don
Rorschach
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:17 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] So you want a new Leica M series Body?


Ah, yes; but what did your wife think of that rationale?

Don R.
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From: "Mark Pope" <leica.user@ntlworld.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] So you want a new Leica M series Body?


> Frank,
>
> good question.
> I recently bought a M2 body.   It was an impulse purchase.  I was passing
my
> local dealer and saw it in the window.  Initially, I went in to look at it
> out of curiosity, but after having handled it, that was it.  It caught me
> hook, line and sinker...  The thought of owning a camera body that is
older
> than me, is in perfect working order AND will take the lenses that I own
was
> just too much! So the funds that I had put away for a Nova fibre based
print
> processor were rapidly diverted to purchase the M2 (oh, and a 135mm
> Elmarit!).
> The M2 is not mint and has obvious signs of wear.  I figure it is better
to
> have an older mechanical camera that has been used regularly than one that
> has been in its box for years.  It was also a very good price -
> substantially lower than some of the recent prices I have seen for M2s in
> the UK photo press.
>
> Adding a Voigtlander VC meter has made it almost as easy to use as the
> M6TTL.
>
> I  justify the purchase by saying that I needed a third body so that I
could
> use colour, b&w and infra-red films at the same time.  Pretty lame excuse,
> but like I said, I think it caught ME.  I have no regrets.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Mark Pope
> Swindon Wilts, UK
>
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk
>
>
>
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