[Leica] how old are u (Mamaya 500 DTL)

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

Jeffrey:  Oooh, I remember the Mamaya 500DTL.  Loudest SLR in the west!  I 
didn't dare take it into the New Hampshire mountains in the winter for fear 
the shutter noise would start an avalanche.  :-)

A friend of mine loaned me a 500 DTL when I was a kid in Massachusetts, age 
16 or 17.  Fooling with that camera and developing a few rolls of my own 
B&W was what really hooked me on photography.  I ended up buying a Canon 
TL.  A few months later I discovered Leica, sold the Canon, bought a used 
M2, and The Rest Is History.

--Peter

At 03:19 PM 11/7/04 -0800, you wrote:
>From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@runbox.com>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] how old are u - 19
>To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
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>Dang! When I was 19, I had a Mamiya 500TL SLR and a Yashica D!
>
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA