Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/10

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Subject: [Leica] Now I'm officially Leica user !
From: alex at zabrovsky.com (Alex)
Date: Wed Jan 10 01:46:59 2007
References: <45A40283.9000901@zabrovsky.com> <9b678e0701091842i48ccec09y13c2d00be8163d88@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Don and LUG fellows wishing me good luck with my new M6 adventure.
Today/tomorrow will load my first roll and will give the shutter to go 
through the frames....:-)
Will be posting my first images here on LUG/my website galleries for LUG 
judgement.

Best, Alex

Don Dory wrote:

> Alex,
> Congratulations and welcome to the saloon.  Now, jam some film into that
> camera and show us your world.  Leica's were made to be abused err 
> used and
> actually work better if you keep feeding them film, lots of film.  With
> about 1,000,000 frames until the shutter finally gives up the ghost 
> you have
> your work cut out for you.  :)
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
> On 1/9/07, Alex <alex@zabrovsky.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, just received my so much anticipated M6 after nearly month of
>> shipments and camera traveling from US to me (I'm in Israel).
>> What a fine piece of craftmanship ! I'm so impressed..wow :-)
>> I feel kind of fetishist grasping the camera in my hands with my
>> Summicron 50mm/2 (latest version) attached, extremely solid feeling of
>> simplicity yet robustness...
>>
>> I'm thankful to our fellow member Hank Kellner whose camera I happened
>> to acquire on Ebay, it was a total pleasure to deal with this gentlemen,
>> very rewarding experience corresponding with him.
>> The camera arrived at least in the condition as described by him, if not
>> even better...complete with entire set (strap, all papers, original box,
>> batteries) exactly as described in his auction.
>>
>> Justy went through the manual making sure I understand the possible new
>> user pitfalls, have yet loaded the film, but having ready the roll of
>> Kodak 400CN to go through tomorrow...:-)
>> It seems to be teh perfect tool to garsp my zone metering estimation
>> skills.
>>
>> Hopefully will happily swamp my yet to born LUG gallery (and my personal
>> site galleries) with my first Leica-made images....
>>
>> Best and Happy New Year to all LUGers and families..
>> Alex
>> Israel
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from alex at zabrovsky.com (Alex) ([Leica] Now I'm officially Leica user !)
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