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Subject: [Leica] Now I'm officially Leica user !
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Tue Jan 9 13:11:31 2007
References: <45A40283.9000901@zabrovsky.com>

Hi Alex ,
I see you already find the M6 a wonderful camera even when there's no 
film in it :-)  Don't worry most of us do it!
Looking forwardx to your first M shots.
Cheers
Douglas

Alex wrote:
> Well, just received my so much anticipated M6 after nearly month of 
> shipments and camera traveling from US to me (I'm in Israel).
> What a fine piece of craftmanship ! I'm so impressed..wow :-)
> I feel kind of fetishist grasping the camera in my hands with my 
> Summicron 50mm/2 (latest version) attached, extremely solid feeling of 
> simplicity yet robustness...
>
> I'm thankful to our fellow member Hank Kellner whose camera I happened 
> to acquire on Ebay, it was a total pleasure to deal with this 
> gentlemen, very rewarding experience corresponding with him.
> The camera arrived at least in the condition as described by him, if 
> not even better...complete with entire set (strap, all papers, 
> original box, batteries) exactly as described in his auction.
>
> Justy went through the manual making sure I understand the possible 
> new user pitfalls, have yet loaded the film, but having ready the roll 
> of Kodak 400CN to go through tomorrow...:-)
> It seems to be teh perfect tool to garsp my zone metering estimation 
> skills.
>
> Hopefully will happily swamp my yet to born LUG gallery (and my 
> personal site galleries) with my first Leica-made images....
>
> Best and Happy New Year to all LUGers and families..
> Alex
> Israel
>
>
>
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