Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the kind words, Gary. Its fifty-nine years this year for me, starting in 1952. I can only recall selling two Leica lenses, both well-used, with problems. The first was a 73mm f/1.9 Hektor from the 1930s, now worth a fortune, and a 50mm f/1.5 Summarit. I have never sold a Leica camera body. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Pinkerton" <gpinkcp at msn.com> To: <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] eighteen years a Leica person > Thirty years this year for me. > No Ms though. > I traded everything I had for an 11 year old SL and a 50 Summicron. > Still have both, use all the time. > I've regretted most things I've sold, exceptions being trading in R bodies > 'til I arrived at my R8 bodies/DMR, selling my 250 to Jim Nichols (he's > already gotten far more good out of it than I ever could) > Biggest regret? Sold a 35 Summicron R, V2 for 300 bucks :( > >> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:38:48 -0400 >> From: images at comporium.net >> To: lug at leica-users.org >> Subject: Re: [Leica] eighteen years a Leica person >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >