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Subject: [Leica] IMG: There Was a Time ........................
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 01:03:12 +0200
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Very nice images Jim, specially the first and the last ones

LLuis


> El 6 set 2018, a les 18:25, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va 
> escriure:
> 
> There was a time when I used Leica gear exclusively, albeit bought used.  
> My first real camera was a Leica IIIa (originally a III, factory converted 
> to IIIa), to which Leica New York had added a flash synch baseplate and 
> flash gun, flash bulbs only.
> 
> As a young USAF Lieutenant, stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, I 
> explored the camera shops and pawn shops in Dayton.  In the basement of 
> the Salem Camera Shop, near the intersection of Salem and Lexington, was a 
> used camera shop run by a real character named "Trader" Horn.  Since it 
> was close to our apartment, I visited the shop frequently, and, finally 
> bought the Leica IIIa, complete with a coated Leica Elmar 50/3.5.  It was 
> my only camera for several years.  It produced wonderful images. But, as 
> my family grew, and my eyes got older, I started looking for a more 
> friendly viewing system.  Finances would not allow me to consider the 
> Leicas of that era.  So, I strayed.
> 
> I did buy a used Leica IIIf as a graduation gift for my youngest son, 
> because he had an interest in photography.  He still uses a Panaleica.
> 
> Here are three images from 1952, all made with my Leica gear.
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070810-Art+Institute+1952.JPG.html
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070708-Wide-Gear+Monocoupe+Dayton+OH+04+52.JPG.html
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070706-Vicki+at+the+Piano+52.JPG.html
> 
> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> 
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