Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/23

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Subject: [Leica] Do you currently OWN a Leica?
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:31:10 -0600
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1967 - Leica M2
1968 - Leica M3
1985 - Leica M6 Classic
1986 - Leica R3 MOT ( x 2)

1999 - Leica M6 TTL .58 - (still own)
2001 - Leica R8 - (still own)

2002 - Leica Digilux 1

2006 - Leica M8 - (still own and use every day)
2007 - Leica R8/DMR - (still own and use every week)

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist





On Nov 23, 2010, at 4:15 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote:

> lenses don't count (nor microscopes nor binoculars). but if you have an r8 
> in a foot locker, that still counts.
> 
> 
> On Nov 23, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Aram Langhans wrote:
> 
>> Hmm.  There are a lot of former, Leica-abandoned R users who do not own a 
>> red dot camera anymore, but faithfully use their R glass on a "lesser" 
>> brand digital body.  How should we count ourselves?  (Actually, I still 
>> own an R8, but it has not seen the light of day for about two years, I am 
>> ashamed to say)
>> 
>> Aram
>> 
>>> From: kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Leica] Do you currently OWN a Leica?
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Message-ID: <35AE8AF6-8D7E-45CE-B53B-EC4EA3B4EB03 at gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>> 
>>> Was just reading merecat.org's blog and saw this:
>>> 
>>> "Brian Reid, the list admin on the Leica Users Group mailing list, 
>>> conducted a random survey of 50 subscribers sometime in 2001 and found 
>>> that only 50% of this group currently own a Leica. "
>>> 
>>> wondering if that still holds true.
>>> 
>>> How many people here don't actually OWN a Leica camera? Raise your hands.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> (Point and shoot's count, as long as it's got a red dot.)
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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In reply to: Message from leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] Do you currently OWN a Leica?)
Message from leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the LUG) ([Leica] Do you currently OWN a Leica?)