[Leica] Actually using your Leica, anybody?

[Lutz Konermann <lutzkonermann@compuserve.com>]

Hello everybody,

From the ongoing discussions I understand that there is at least a 
fraction of us interested in actually using the Leica M and doing it the 
way it was meant for: As a reporter's tool. Be this on assignment, be it 
driven by a very personal, even intimate urge to collect and communicate 
what we see around us as members of a local and global community. I think 
it's hard to find a camera that is as sturdy, precise and inconspicuous. 
A camera that can get as close at people without intruding, frightening 
or even offending - and can (for all these forementioned reasons) record 
their story as truly. 

For the rest of photographic purposes there are other (and even better) 
tools around. Discussing this is a time-waster for 
frame-and-grain-counters. For the rest of us there is a whole world out 
there to explore.

If there are at least some of you sharing this view of mine, I would 
equally like to share something with you I have developed recently in 
order to make photography as above even more practicable and enjoyable. 
I've baptised this little accessory the SLING. You may already have read 
about it. 

It is hard to improve an almost perfect tool as the Leica M. But I still 
had a try. And since for me it worked I thought it selfish not to let you 
participate. As you will easily understand, at a shareware price of $ 10 
I will never get rich on it (this SLING biz is more about David 
challanging Goliath... :-) and the price may seem even too ridiculous to 
Leica users for the item to be taken seriously. But I won't ask more for 
it. I will even offer LUGers a discount, valid thru the rest of the 
millennium. If you take two, I will give them to you for $ 15 - if you 
order three, they will be $ 20 only. Just mention LUG in your order. 

I'll be happy to receive your feedback and answer your questions. Please 
send them directly to my address as above, subject: SLING.

Watch out! The SLING is spreading, from Seattle to Singapore, fostering 
photography the Leica way. 

Yours,
Lutz



Leica users, get your SLING!
Read and see @:
http://www.konermann.net/sling.html