[Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago

[mcintyre at ca.inter.net (Jim McIntyre)]

15 years ago I was in Toronto visiting family. I needed to pick up a few
rolls of film, so I headed to the local neighbourhood camera shop. I
happened to have my M3 with me. The young lad behind the counter took a look
at my camera, and asked in an almost awed voice "Is that a Leica?". He asked
if he could take a look at it.

I sincerely doubt that none but a select few "counter-kids" would even
recognize a Leica rangefinder let alone ask to look at it. If I had the
latest Sony ultra-minature digicam they might....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica sighting in Chicago


> Brian Reid asked:
>
> > I've often wondered what fraction of actual users of Leicas are on the
LUG
> and the MUG. Most of the Leicas ever sold are in display cases or storage
> boxes. Some smallish number of people use them to take pictures. There are
> about 1000 people on the LUG. I have no idea how big the MUG is, nor how
> much overlap there is with the LUG. Does that represent 1% of Leica
> photographers? 0.01%? 10%  It would be hard to find out, I guess.<<<<,,,
>
> Brian,
> I think the question has to be approached from another direction.
>
> Q 1.... How many people have computers?
>
> Q 2.... How many people are www connected or some version of international
> connection.
>
> Q 3.... How many of those people are camera users or photo people?
>
> Q 4.... How many have leica's?
>
> Q 5.... Now you ask..... How many are on the various Leica related sites?
>
> A wild question might be:
>
> How many Leica's have been sold and in use today in relation to computers
in
> use? Or in the hands of people who actually know what they are?
>
> ted
>
>
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