[Leica] A newbie here..

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Welcome Alex,

You have made a wise choice, just keep that Leica with you when you travel 
and 
see what happens. You'll find that you make friends, get good, solid advice 
and 
always get a hearing providing it is (mostly) On Topic. Keep pressing the 
shuuter and start posting.

Best of luck,

Peter Dzwig

Alex wrote:

> Hello all.
> I'm a newbie to Leica and to RF in the whole, just got registered here, 
> willing to introduce myself.
> My name is Alex, I'm from Israel. Used to be a long-term SLR shooter 
> jumping over from Minolta to Canon professional systems, until about 2 
> years ago took a leap into large format (4x5) and never looked back so 
> that my Canon setup used to spent about 95% of the time in the closet. 
> Besides, it took me several years to realize that the "latest and 
> greatest" gear isn't always the optimal solution. I became quite 
> reluctant of getting out my Canon and lugging it around, even though 
> owing high-end analog camera and some nice L line optics. In the past I 
> enjoyed challenging myslef physically and mentally lugging 15 kg 
> backpack full of Canon throughout the world even on business trips, but 
> lately getting realized that nor fast and quite AF, neither 
> super-sophisticated metering or super-speed machine-gun shooting doesn't 
> bring me the pleasure any more in my hobby. So the breaking point came 
> few weeks ago when I decided to quit my SLR adventure altoagther and 
> convert to something much more manageable and intimate that will not be 
> a burden for my family either in family strools or trips but yet provide 
> an adequate quality. After quite a deliberation between jumping to an MF 
> rangefinder or remain in 35mm world I made up my mind to stay with 35mm 
> to avoid the necessity to change my entire flow. Then were two weeks of 
> online "research" of RF world, equipment, shooting technique, 
> etc..became an active member on RFF (rangefinderforum.com), "spamming" 
> apug.org with my RF-related hesitations...until realized that in that or 
> another way I will have hard time to get my Leica lust calm down....
> So two days ago I managed to pick a nice Summicron 50mm/2 (current 
> version) which is on its way to me right now and just a few hours ago I 
> had a pleasure to purchase a nice M6 of LUG fellow Hank Kellner (he 
> offered the camera for sale here also few days ago). Did not realize 
> Hank is a well known person not only on LUG but also in literature 
> world, but that turned to be a nice surprise to me.
> 
> So I'm welcoming myself here on LUG..;-)
> 
> Sincerely, Alex
> 
> 
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