Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] first camera - my first real camera
From: rdcb37 at dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra)
Date: Thu Jun 2 03:04:41 2005
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Great story Ruben.  Thanks for sharing.  I'm sure many of us here can  
identify with it.

Rick.

On 02/06/2005, at 6:20 AM, Ruben wrote:

> 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
>
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In reply to: Message from imagist at imagist.cnc.net (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] first camera.)
Message from scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin) ([Leica] first camera.)
Message from ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben) ([Leica] first camera - my first real camera)