[Leica] eighteen years a Leica person

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

I'm sure it was a good choice, and a happy feeling.  I bought my used Leica 
IIIa in 1952, well before the M appeared, and I felt the same way at the 
time.  I'm not much of a joiner, though, so no society connections.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 4:11 PM
Subject: [Leica] eighteen years a Leica person


> Eighteen years ago today a long time dream came true for me and I became a
> Leica shooter as I swung my first M6 though some financial accident that I
> forgot about.  I was temporary financially unembarrassed. I'd gotten a new
> 50mm Summicron with it and still have both.
> I used to swim laps every morning and with every stroke on the upswing 
> when
> my face came out of the water I  pre visualized a Leica M6.  Every morning
> for months I'm sure. I was obsessed. Me shooting with one.  It sitting in 
> my
> camera bag. It seemed like an impossible dream. That was 1993.
> It was not until 1998 when I joined the LHSA Leica Historical Society of
> America with the simple act of sending in the subscription stub to the
> Viewfinder Magazine. At my first meeting that year in Denver I met Tom A.
> smoking a pipe outside of a meeting hall and I said "what's going on in
> there?" and he said "its a LUG meeting" and I said "what's a LUG meeting?"
> and within a year I was a registered LugNut posting hourly odd ramblings 
> to
> the list ...  As the tech guy when you call Hasselblad called us when I
> called in there one day around then.
> If you told me then that my Leica would  be festering in my camera chest 
> for
> five years while I played with some other new technology I'd have called 
> you
> a damn liar to your face! But the world moves in mysterious ways.
> So as it happened ten years after becoming a Leica M6 person I got my 
> first
> digital SLR a D100 for $1699.95 2 July 2003 and it was all downhill from
> there. I do think its the most exciting time to be a photographer since
> Daguerre  got together with Ni?pce to see if they could improve Ni?pce's
> process resulting in  Ni?pce  dropping dead and Daguerre coming out with 
> the
> Daguerreotype in 1839; proving the importance of rubber gloves in the
> darkroom  and don't drink from an unlabeled beaker.
> And that's the history of photography as it relates to me.
> - I'm off to go make a Rabuerreotype.
>
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