[Leica] first camera

[lkhermann at bresnan.net (lkhermann)]

My first real camera was used Exacta VX with a 50mm f 2.8 Tessar, a very 
good lens.  I loaned it years later to my niece and got it back in non 
working condition a while back.  Since I really do not want to use it, it 
sits as memento of the past on the book case.  My first Leica was purchased 
with money from selling blood in 1958, a black III with an f 3.5  50mm 
Elmar.  I loaned it to a friend who was going to Europe after she graduated 
and never got it back.  I could do this because I had obtained a IIIb in 
much better condition.  I still have this one and in fact, DAG did a CLA on 
it fairly recently.
        It has been interesting to read everyone's first camera story.

Lee