Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, it's been 31 years for me as a Leica user and I still have almost every Leica camera and lens that I ever bought. I regretted selling the few I did sell, so I'm just keeping them and using them! 1 M3, 2 M4s, 6 M6s, 1 M7, 2 M8s, 1 M9 1 R6.2, 1 R8, 1 R9 and I have slept with them many, many times - usually in hammocks or sleeping bags. Tina On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > 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. > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com