Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/07
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Just finished reading the thread, so here are my particulars.
Presently, I am 33. A Student Affairs Officer at UCSD.
When I was working in a camera store back in the eighties,
at the age of 20, I started looking into Leicas. I previously used
Canon and Konica, as well as the old Petri 7s rangefinder I had since
age 12 from my mother. I acquired my first Leicas and Nikons while
working here.
My first Leica was the Leitz/minolta CL w/40 M-Rokkor. Then I
completed the set with a second CL. 90 M-Rokkor(Leitz version), and a
28 M-Rokkor, and a CLE body. I used this set up in college and grad
school until 1992. With the battery problems and the expense of
repairs to my CLs and CLE, I sold everything but the 28 M-Rokkor.
I now shoot with an M6, 50 NF-Summicron, 21 f3.4 Super Angulon and the
28 M-Rokkor. I still maintain my Nikon SLRs (FE2's & FM2n's), for the
PC lenses, Micros and the two lenses I converted over to Nikon F,
Minolta 24 VFC and Canon Tilt/Shift.
The Leica lenses are just a joy to shoot with. To use a previous
analogy, SLRs are the sedans of the camera world, rangefinders are the
no frills sports cars.
Pablo
pmendoza@ucsd.edu
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Subject: Hmm Great new question - AGE
Author: dlevy@worldy.com at @UCSD
Date: 05/10/1996 12:24 PM
At 08:59 04/10/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Leicaphiles have a reputation for being the stodgy, old, well heeled
>grouches of the camera enthusiasts,
>--
>Roger Beamon, Naturalist & Photographer
> Docent: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
> Leica Historical Society Of America
> INTERNET: beamon@primenet.com
>
New question for the group.
Just how old are we? It is understandable that possibly the average age of a
Leica user or collector is somewhat older than say the Nikon, etc. user for
it takes a higher income or greater assets to acquire a $2,000.00 lens than
a $200.00 lens.
I don't think of myself as old, stodgy, well heeled or grouchy. At 48, I'm
just hitting my stride. My 9 year old son does agree with your statement,
though and thinks that in the interest of estate planning, I should turn
over my Leica system to him NOW. If I do, does that make him old, stodgy,
well heeled and grouchy.
Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto, Ont.
dlevy@worldy.com
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