Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ed Look, Ed, you are entitled to buy all the Leicas that you can afford without offering any excuses to anyone. When I lived in Japan, I met Leica enthusiasts who had over 100 Leicas, and they were not apologetic. Jerry Edward Caliguri wrote: > Gary and Kit- > Well - I'll get all the MP's and let ya know (SURE!) Seriously, I had to > sell and ' horse-trade' A LOT of stuff to get to the point of having this > stuff! I'm 38 yrs. old now, and my parents bought me my first SLR when I was > 15 (A black Nikkormat FTn with a 55 macro!) -- then it turned into a > snowball, then avalanche :-) Pretty soon, every cent I earned went into a > camera (or some pretty girl at the time!), until --- well --- I became a > LUG NUT!! I freely admit it. But I'm down to 6 M bodies (not THAT bad :-) ) > But for you and Kit - is your M7 a Silver or Black? It's just strange > that ONLY the Silver special order M7's are like this. Kit -- if you have a > silver 0.85 0r 0.58 M7 you might want to try a grip on it, just to see. > Yes - the 'little hobby' my folks started me on just took off. If they > knew it would lead to this, they probably would have just opened up a bank > account for me with $50.00 in it! > But -- I'd bet the farm there are more people on this list that have > more than six M bodies hangin' around :-) Now the deal with the wife is I > have to SELL something before I BUY something - unless I need it or can make > $$$$ with it! I suppose that's fair enough - but no more 'collecting' - so > there goes the Luxus, Swedish Crown, Black MP-3 and Leicavit --- If I had > them :-) > Thanks folks! > Ed > > > Anyone who has the bucks to buy all VF mags in both LHSA and M7 bodies > > should be smart enough to figure out something for the baseplate without > > complaining (bragging?!!) to the list. In fact, my suggestion is to next > > purchase all three VF mags in the new MP so your statistical sampling will > > have more integrity. > > > > Enjoying my one .58 mag M7 and old reliable .72 mag M2 :) > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html