[Leica] USING (GASP!) Leicas

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I was using a Minolta SRT 101 in 1971 or 1972 when my grandfather died and
left me $500.  I used it to buy a used Leica M3 and one lens - I can't
remember which one.  That was it for me.  I still have the Minolta camera
and lenses but haven't used them in 40 years. I've never sold a Leica lens
that I haven't regretted selling later. I'd gladly sell all of my Minolta
and Canon lenses anytime.

Tina

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Gary Pinkerton <gpinkcp at msn.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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