Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The first relatively serious camera I used as a teenager was my father's Voigtlander Vito Automatic (which I still own). I then borrowed my brother's Ricohflex twin lens reflex (sort of a very poor man's Rolleiflex). They certainly were not very fancy from today's standards, but they didn't hold me back. Of course, the camera I lusted after was my high school friend's M3, and the ~ $550 M4 (with 50/1.4) listed in the Toronto Camera catalogue for 1968 (which I also still have, the catalogue that is ;-) ). Dan C. .At 02:07 PM 20-09-00 -0700, Brian Reid wrote: >Twice in my life I've bought a rangefinder camera for a teenager who was >learning photography, and both times I've regretted it. It didn't help them >learn to be better. These days I get a Nikon FM or a Pentax K1000 for such >purposes, and it works better. On the other hand, I gave my young nephew a >Rollei 35 and it changed his life. > > >