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Subject: [Leica] Best Learning Camera
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:50:49 -0800
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> On Nov 30, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all of the advice, guys.  I knew I could count on you.
> 
> I found a used 50/2.8 Elmarit for $349.  That seems like a good starting
> lens to me.  It's silver and the M8 that I'm giving her is silver.

Say no more Tina, after all, that is the number one requirement to get a 
good image.
.

> going to give it to her with the understanding that she will USE it and if
> she ever decides she is not interested in photography, she will either give
> it back to me or pass it on to somebody who will use it.  I doubt that will
> happen, though.  She is really very interested and intense.
> 
> It will be fun getting together a package of everything she will need to
> take photos.
> 
> Tom and I have had the flu (caught from Red in Charleston)  I'm much better
> but he's still pretty sick - going to the doctor tomorrow.
> Being sick makes you realize how much worse this stuff hits OLD people!!
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
>> John, are you sure? I seem to remember there was an adaptor which was
>> supposed to work.
>> Douglas
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 9:18 PM
>> 
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Best Learning Camera
>> 
>> 
>> Not much use on an M8, perhaps a LTM Canon or similar lens.....
>>> 
>>> john
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 
>>> Pricey pricey, Lluis!! IMHO, that's crazy money to spend on a youngster
>>> who's only getting her first camera and might drop it when the rest of 
>>> the
>>> photography class - and her teacher - all rush over to have a look at it
>>> all at the same time.
>>> How about a 35mm MC Rokkor and adaptor which can be picked up for 
>>> peanuts?
>>> 
>>> Douglas
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> 
>>>> From: "Lluis Ripoll Photography" <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com>
>>>> 
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 6:50 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Best Learning Camera
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Tina,
>>>> 
>>>> Here is a offer for a Summicron C 40mm, IMHO an excellent lens for a M8
>>>> at
>>>> a reasonable price and I think better quality than a Voigtlander
>>>> 
>>>> <http://www.ebay.es/itm/LEICA-LEITZ-SUMMICRON-C-40mm-F-2-LEN
>>>> S-WETZLAR-GERMANY-W-HOOD-CAP-for-CL-CLE-/332026429946?hash=
>>>> item4d4e5141fa:g:-uUAAOSwImRYIgVG
>>>> <http://www.ebay.es/itm/LEICA-LEITZ-SUMMICRON-C-40mm-F-2-LEN
>>>> S-WETZLAR-GERMANY-W-HOOD-CAP-for-CL-CLE-/332026429946?hash=
>>>> item4d4e5141fa:g:-uUAAOSwImRYIgVG>>
>>>> 
>>>> Lluis
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> El 29 nov 2016, a les 17:44, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> va
>>>>> escriure:
>>>>> 
>>>>> LUG:
>>>>> 
>>>>> My granddaughter is 15 and into all things artistic.  She is taking
>>>>> photography in high school and is very interested, following me around
>>>>> asking lots of good questions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'd like to get her a good camera for Christmas that she can use to
>>>>> learn.
>>>>> She's very interested in f stops and focal lengths and the differences
>>>>> they
>>>>> make.
>>>>> 
>>>>> One choice would be to give her one of my old M8's but the disadvantage
>>>>> to
>>>>> that is that she will not be able to afford extra lenses for it.  I 
>>>>> have
>>>>> an
>>>>> old Elmar 65/3.5 that I would include but I don't have a lot of surplus
>>>>> lenses.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there another digital camera out there that would be good for
>>>>> learning
>>>>> apertures, speeds, focal lengths?  Most of them are so automatic you
>>>>> don't
>>>>> ever have to know what those are but she wants to know!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tina
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Tina Manley
>>>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>>>> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
>>>>> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-
>>>>> A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html
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