Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walker started this with his comments about having a camera in his car. In the seventies and eighties, the beater would have been an old M2 or M3 for the pro's and many others. After the sixties, rangefinders were so pass? that you did not want to admit that you really used one. But you knew that the old Leica would patiently bounce under the seat until you needed it for that image that popped up in front of you. As to personal journey for a beater camera, I have run the gamut: Pentax Spotmatic, old F, Exacta Varex, Retina II, Canonet, beat into the dirt F1. Now I simply carry an M with me virtually everywhere I go. The major exception would be when I take one of the older cameras out of the closet to keep up familiarity with them. That last statement is kinda funny as my M3 is from 1961 and my M6 is one of the early Wetzler versions. With a twenty and forty year old camera as my mainstay user, on not too many lists could I say use one of my older cameras and not refer to something made in 1994. :) Don dorysrus@mindspring.com