[Leica] A newbie here..

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Welcome, Alex. We look forward to seeing your pictures. You seem to be a 
prime candidate for a whole bag full of M stuff. Enjoy.

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Alex
Sent: Wednesday, 13 December 2006 08:10
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] A newbie here..

Hello all.
I'm a newbie to Leica and to RF in the whole, just got registered here, 
willing to introduce myself.
My name is Alex, I'm from Israel. Used to be a long-term SLR shooter 
jumping over from Minolta to Canon professional systems, until about 2 
years ago took a leap into large format (4x5) and never looked back so 
that my Canon setup used to spent about 95% of the time in the closet. 
Besides, it took me several years to realize that the "latest and 
greatest" gear isn't always the optimal solution. I became quite 
reluctant of getting out my Canon and lugging it around, even though 
owing high-end analog camera and some nice L line optics. In the past I 
enjoyed challenging myslef physically and mentally lugging 15 kg 
backpack full of Canon throughout the world even on business trips, but 
lately getting realized that nor fast and quite AF, neither 
super-sophisticated metering or super-speed machine-gun shooting doesn't 
bring me the pleasure any more in my hobby. So the breaking point came 
few weeks ago when I decided to quit my SLR adventure altoagther and 
convert to something much more manageable and intimate that will not be 
a burden for my family either in family strools or trips but yet provide 
an adequate quality. After quite a deliberation between jumping to an MF 
rangefinder or remain in 35mm world I made up my mind to stay with 35mm 
to avoid the necessity to change my entire flow. Then were two weeks of 
online "research" of RF world, equipment, shooting technique, 
etc..became an active member on RFF (rangefinderforum.com), "spamming" 
apug.org with my RF-related hesitations...until realized that in that or 
another way I will have hard time to get my Leica lust calm down....
So two days ago I managed to pick a nice Summicron 50mm/2 (current 
version) which is on its way to me right now and just a few hours ago I 
had a pleasure to purchase a nice M6 of LUG fellow Hank Kellner (he 
offered the camera for sale here also few days ago). Did not realize 
Hank is a well known person not only on LUG but also in literature 
world, but that turned to be a nice surprise to me.

So I'm welcoming myself here on LUG..;-)

Sincerely, Alex




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