Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My dad gave me his IIc and 50mm Elmar, leather never-ready case, when I was 13, back in 1967. Still have it, still works! Spoiled me for anything less... Will von Dauster On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Bill Nelsch wrote: > 1968 I bought my first Leica - the Leicaflex with the 50mm Summicron. > Still > have it and last used it with my last roll of Kodachrome in 2009. > > Bill in Denver > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Gary Pinkerton <gpinkcp at msn.com> > wrote: > >> Thirty years this year for me. >> No Ms though. >> I traded everything I had for an 11 year old SL and a 50 Summicron. >> Still have both, use all the time. >> I've regretted most things I've sold, exceptions being trading in R bodies >> 'til I arrived at my R8 bodies/DMR, selling my 250 to Jim Nichols (he's >> already gotten far more good out of it than I ever could) >> Biggest regret? Sold a 35 Summicron R, V2 for 300 bucks :( >> >>> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:38:48 -0400 >>> From: images at comporium.net >>> To: lug at leica-users.org >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] eighteen years a Leica person >>> >>> Well, it's been 31 years for me as a Leica user and I still have almost >>> every Leica camera and lens that I ever bought. I regretted selling the >> few >>> I did sell, so I'm just keeping them and using them! >>> 1 M3, 2 M4s, 6 M6s, 1 M7, 2 M8s, 1 M9 1 R6.2, 1 R8, 1 R9 and I have slept >>> with them many, many times - usually in hammocks or sleeping bags. >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> Eighteen years ago today a long time dream came true for me and I >> became a >>>> Leica shooter as I swung my first M6 though some financial accident >> that I >>>> forgot about. I was temporary financially unembarrassed. I'd gotten a >> new >>>> 50mm Summicron with it and still have both. >>>> I used to swim laps every morning and with every stroke on the upswing >> when >>>> my face came out of the water I pre visualized a Leica M6. Every >> morning >>>> for months I'm sure. I was obsessed. Me shooting with one. It sitting >> in >>>> my >>>> camera bag. It seemed like an impossible dream. That was 1993. >>>> It was not until 1998 when I joined the LHSA Leica Historical Society >> of >>>> America with the simple act of sending in the subscription stub to the >>>> Viewfinder Magazine. At my first meeting that year in Denver I met Tom >> A. >>>> smoking a pipe outside of a meeting hall and I said "what's going on in >>>> there?" and he said "its a LUG meeting" and I said "what's a LUG >> meeting?" >>>> and within a year I was a registered LugNut posting hourly odd >> ramblings to >>>> the list ... As the tech guy when you call Hasselblad called us when I >>>> called in there one day around then. >>>> If you told me then that my Leica would be festering in my camera >> chest >>>> for >>>> five years while I played with some other new technology I'd have >> called >>>> you >>>> a damn liar to your face! But the world moves in mysterious ways. >>>> So as it happened ten years after becoming a Leica M6 person I got my >> first >>>> digital SLR a D100 for $1699.95 2 July 2003 and it was all downhill >> from >>>> there. I do think its the most exciting time to be a photographer since >>>> Daguerre got together with Ni?pce to see if they could improve >> Ni?pce's >>>> process resulting in Ni?pce dropping dead and Daguerre coming out >> with >>>> the >>>> Daguerreotype in 1839; proving the importance of rubber gloves in the >>>> darkroom and don't drink from an unlabeled beaker. >>>> And that's the history of photography as it relates to me. >>>> - I'm off to go make a Rabuerreotype. >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------- >>>> Mark William Rabiner >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information