[Leica] USING (GASP!) Leicas

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

That was 1981 when I made the big swap btw :) 

> From: gpinkcp at msn.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:04:57 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Leica] USING (GASP!) Leicas
> 
> Pretty much my story too; traded Minoltas and lenses plus 50 bucks for an 
> SL and a 50 2.0.
> Still have, use both regularly, but the DMR gets the most use :)
> 
> > From: mak at teleport.com
> > Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:22:03 -0700
> > To: lug at leica-users.org
> > Subject: [Leica] USING (GASP!) Leicas
> > 
> > Reminds me of being accosted as a college student 1983. My bag full of 
> > Minolta SRTs XDs XEs and a gazillion lenses was stolen. Insurance gave 
> > me what appeared to a 19 year old to be a huge check. Took it to 
> > Citizen's Photo and a wonderful rep, Don Leap, turned something like 5 
> > or 7 Minoltas and a scad of lenses and motors and strobes etc into ONE 
> > M4-P with a black MR-4 and a new 50 f2 and used fat 90 2.8.  
> > 
> > wait, Don, I had fisheye to super tele 87 1.7, VFC, etc etc etc and now? 
> > Alas. ONE CAMERA TWO Lenses STICK ON METER? WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAT?
> > 
> > Went on holiday at Christmas to Hawaii (Oahu I was boring at time)....at 
> > the mall purchasing film from the Leica dealer camera store at Ala Moana 
> > (sp)
> > 
> > Leaving store, bag of film, M4-P around neck when a gentleman from 
> > another culture walks up to me and literally started lecturing me about 
> > damaging an icon. "Look, I am a poor college student, this is my only 
> > camera, you can buy a new one right there at that store and seal it in a 
> > case keeping yours new forever" had NO impact on the man. I felt like an 
> > uncouth savage. I still have the M4-P. It has been to 5 continents and 
> > never failed. It probably has a couple million miles on it and looks 
> > like it. Poor guy would probably have me put to death if he know how 
> > much film I have run through that camera...
> > 
> > Fast forwarding many years. Camera World here in Portland sold to Ritz 
> > (1990s). CW had a GOLD Pentax LX I acquired with the collectible 
> > inventory. I sold it (to a collector in Japan) with the stipulation that 
> > I run a roll of film through it (he made me wear white cotton gloves)...
> > 
> > Here's to Leica users!
> > 
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > 
> > On Jul 17, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Richard Man wrote:
> > 
> > > But it's also true that we film users (even though I do also use an
> > > M9) get flack because we use film on this film. Go figure eh?
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at 
> > > gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> NO! NO! NO!
> > >> 
> > >> I'll bet that fewer than 10% of us own M8s or M9s. OK, maybe 20% of 
> > >> us. The
> > >> LUG is the Leica User's List, but some of us don't even own Leicas. 
> > >> With one
> > >> exception, a CL, all the Leicas I own were made before 1955. Dwight D.
> > >> Eisenhower was President of the U.S. then.
> > >> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
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