Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Where We Post From.
From: "Douglas Landrum" <dflandrum@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:55:39 -0700
References: <12f.12b7b9e.287bdba6@aol.com>

Ira:
My Man! You're the only other LUGGER from Orange County.
Doug in Laguna Beach
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <ISILVERMN@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 9:16 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Where We Post From.


> For the past 10 years, it's been Irvine, CA, the original "planned
community"
> with its attendant virtues and vices.  For the 10 years prior to that it
was
> Northridge, CA (yes, THAT Northridge); we had the good fortune to move
south
> a year before the quake.
>
> Prior to moving to the Left Coast in 1981, it was 19 years on Long Island,
> with stops in the Bronx (NYU), Princeton (Grad school) and Cincinnati.
>
> Born in Brooklyn, spent my first 12 years there in Crown Heights.  The
> Dodgers left, then so did we.
>
> I've been a Leica user since 1970  (M4 with 35mm 'cron).  Bought it for
its
> ease of focusing, quiet shutter and no mirror slap.  I've added a few
lenses
> and accessories since, and find that the more I use it, the better I like
it.
>  There's darn few pieces of hardware of any kind I can say that about!
>
> Best,
>
> Ira Silverman

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