Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Camera for a 10 y.o.
From: Robert Clark <rclark@desupernet.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 21:19:58 -0400
References: <3B6C928A.EB20BD50@rabiner.cncoffice.com> <20010805034950.5758@mail.mindspring.com>

How about a K1000?  I'm sure they're available for a good price.......

Robert Clark
Lancaster, PA

Daniel Bowdoin wrote:

> Would an early, but well-sorted-out, Leica R camera be worth considering?
>  An R4 or, particularly, an R3, with, say, an older 50mm Summicron in
> good condition? Not particularly expensive (particularly the R3); not too
> much automation (here again, particularly the R3) but still enough to
> have the feel of a "modern" camera; a platform for some fine optics
> (might as well get a head start with this) that, if picked out with care,
> won't be humongously expensive either. By no means a pocket camera, of
> course, and therefore perhaps too heavy/clunky for a child. But maybe not.
>
> Just a possibility . . .
>
> Dan Bowdoin

In reply to: Message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Camera for a 10 y.o.)
Message from Daniel Bowdoin <danlb@mindspring.com> (Re: [Leica] Camera for a 10 y.o.)