[Leica] A newbie here..

[chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)]

Glad to have ya!
Chris

At 05:10 PM 12/12/2006, you wrote:
>Hello all.
>I'm a newbie to Leica and to RF in the whole, just got registered here, 
>willing to introduce myself.
>My name is Alex, I'm from Israel. Used to be a long-term SLR shooter 
>jumping over from Minolta to Canon professional systems, until about 2 
>years ago took a leap into large format (4x5) and never looked back so 
>that my Canon setup used to spent about 95% of the time in the closet. 
>Besides, it took me several years to realize that the "latest and 
>greatest" gear isn't always the optimal solution. I became quite reluctant 
>of getting out my Canon and lugging it around, even though owing high-end 
>analog camera and some nice L line optics. In the past I enjoyed 
>challenging myslef physically and mentally lugging 15 kg backpack full of 
>Canon throughout the world even on business trips, but lately getting 
>realized that nor fast and quite AF, neither super-sophisticated metering 
>or super-speed machine-gun shooting doesn't bring me the pleasure any more 
>in my hobby. So the breaking point came few weeks ago when I decided to 
>quit my SLR adventure altoagther and convert to something much more 
>manageable and intimate that will not be a burden for my family either in 
>family strools or trips but yet provide an adequate quality. After quite a 
>deliberation between jumping to an MF rangefinder or remain in 35mm world 
>I made up my mind to stay with 35mm to avoid the necessity to change my 
>entire flow. Then were two weeks of online "research" of RF world, 
>equipment, shooting technique, etc..became an active member on RFF 
>(rangefinderforum.com), "spamming" apug.org with my RF-related 
>hesitations...until realized that in that or another way I will have hard 
>time to get my Leica lust calm down....
>So two days ago I managed to pick a nice Summicron 50mm/2 (current 
>version) which is on its way to me right now and just a few hours ago I 
>had a pleasure to purchase a nice M6 of LUG fellow Hank Kellner (he 
>offered the camera for sale here also few days ago). Did not realize Hank 
>is a well known person not only on LUG but also in literature world, but 
>that turned to be a nice surprise to me.
>
>So I'm welcoming myself here on LUG..;-)
>
>Sincerely, Alex
>
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