[Leica] first camera - my first real camera

[ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben)]

This is not the story of my first  camera but the story of my first real 
camera

When i want something strongly I set my mind up to it and then I patienly 
wait until the right moment appears. The First Leica I saw was on an ad - it 
was a M4 and I was "sold" it must have been early 70ties when I was about 10 
years old - I have always liked mechanics and watches etc. I cut the ad out 
of a magazine and it was stuck with cellotape on my door until I some years 
later saw an ad for a Black M5 - that ad occopied my door for another period 
until I moved away from my parrents house and I took it down and keept it 
with my import papers like my birth cetificate. sometime during the 80ties I 
saw that the M6 was introduced - I got the brocure and had it until 1997 
when fortune and hard work made me recieved a bonus at work at the same time 
as the local pro camera dealer had a demo M6 with a Summicron 35 2,0 at a 
reasonable price. Until that point I had used Canon AF/EOS for 24x36 film 
and I had never actually held a Leica in my hands, only in my mind !
The dealer gave me a full year warranty and i asked him to place the camera 
and lens etc. in their boxes. Not before I came home to my appartment did I 
touch the Leica - It was almost a religous moment. I had my old brochure, 
the black box with the M6 - the strap - the battery - the film and the lens 
in the "leather" pouch and the manual.
Since that day i have only used my Canon EOS for longe tele and macroshots - 
I recently sold my canon backupcamera and 4 lenses and a flash.
After My first leica the family has grown to a IIIf , a M2 and a M3
my motto: Like good sex, cars and food there is no going back - and even 
though i think it is great to use yashica rangfinders there is for 24x36 
nothing that comes anywere near the shooting pleasure of an Leica 
rangefinder - nothing - I use less film, and I get more good shots on a film 
that I ever did with my canons
My lenses are 35 mm summicron, 4,0 90 mm elmar C, 50 mm 1,5 summarit and for 
the IIIf 3,5 5cm elmar - 3,5 3,5 cm summaron and 90 mm 4,0 elmar -

all the best
Ruben