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Subject: [Leica] my first Leica
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Barney Quinn)
Date: Sat Feb 14 15:52:11 2009

Brian,

How well I remember Industrial Photo. Unfortunately they went out of 
business some years ago, a victim of the switch from silver to digital. 

I got my first two Leicas about the same time you did. My friend Alan 
Wurzbach's Dad had been stationed in Germany at the end of World War II. He 
came back to the us with what I think are two IIIc's I think. When they were 
cleaning out his Dad's house he sold me the collection for $125. I still 
have them. They still work just fine. They live in my closet next to a pair 
of antique Plath sextants.

Barney


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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 6:06 PM
To: LUG@leica-users.org <LUG@leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] my first Leica

It was 40 years ago today that I got my first Leica.

My friend (and boss) David Labovitz mentioned to me that he'd seen a decent 
selection of used Leicas at Industrial Photo in Silver Spring, Maryland. I 
went in on Friday, 14 February, 1969 just minutes after  retiring 
photographer from the Baltimore Sun had put up his IIIf kit on consignment. 
I bought the whole thing (body, 3 lenses, 3 finders, 3 metal lens caps, 
leather case) and have had it ever since. He was its first owner and I am 
its second.

I mostly use my M8 these days, but the IIIf is still a damn fine camera.


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