Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's funny. I don't make my living with them, but this is almost exactly how I got to be a Leica user. All those years of reading Schwalberg and others wax poetic about the Leica in Pop Photo must have had an impact. Of course what I DID get for my birthday, an Argus C3, may have given me the rangefinder bug. It's all history now. Mike D Mark Rabiner wrote: > > Some people think of their cameras as tools to pay the rent. > > Others, me i get more involved with them. Not putting them under my > pillow at night but certainly a camera has spent time on the end table > next to my bed next to my alarm clock. Just so it don't get lost in the > middle of the night! Later on a week or so it goes to be with the rest > of the cameras down stairs. > > When i was 13 in 1964 or 5 I bought a Popular Photography Magazine, my > first issue and which in the back had lots of small adds some of which > features topless shots of women which for me was what National > Geographic was for others before me. Some definite inspiration. And > allowed in my house! (Mad magasine was not allowed in my house and for > that matter either were regular comic books like Superman or Batman) > Also in the back of that magaine was a thumbnail, pinkynail sized > picture of a camera called a "Hasselblad". > I think it was going for 3 hundred bucks which for me a that time might > as well been 30 thousand bucks. > More money than i was going to see in a decade. And i was right. > > But the point being that somehow at my then tender level of photographic > knowledge and expertise glitched on the camera immediately and > understood it immediately. Understood how it was a simple cube which > took lenses on the front, finders on the top and on from there. And the > square format. > I didn't get one for the holidays the next year so the holidays for me > was in effect, a wash. > Next year either. I waited 14 years. 14 miserable holidays. Told the > Bank we were getting Chevy Nova. > > I love Olympus cameras I've got some Pen FT stuff and an XA clamshell. > But trade in my Hassy's for an Olympus dig? > > To me that's like trading in my car for a skateboard and a pair of > in-line roller-skates. > > Nothing gets between me and my Hasselblads. > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > Photography > > Website: http://www.rabinergroup.com > Email: mark@rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html