Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your second career "travel writer/photographer" would certainly allow you to "depreciate" your equipment; including a complete write off in the year that you purchase it; assuming that you file a schedule C as a self employed "writer/photographer." Also, I'm very curious as to how many of the off list nay sayers have owned and used the M8. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > After I retired, I started a second career as a travel writer/ > photographer selling mostly to marine and boating magazines. I must > confess that most of my photographic work is done with Olympus OM > cameras and assorted digitals. At first I felt that the Leicas were > too valuable to take out on a boat but then I got seduced by the > dark side of SLRs with auto exposure, opening backs, and nice, > bright viewfinders. I can even use all my Olympus lenses on the > E-500 DSLR. Too bad someone doesn't make an adapter to let me mount > Leica lenses on the camera.