Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The people who need the support group are the ones who baby there cameras they supposedly DO use. We need more like you on these lists. People who put their cameras through a full run and do not worry about resale value. There's a gorgeous supermodel shooting an S2 on backlit Tiffany's subway posters. The nikon logo is slightly blurred but very readable. And in MILK Sean Penn is shown as Harvey Milk using what it think is one in the film I just came home from a few hours ago. Or another such Nikon rangefinder camera. Certainly elegant and very usable cameras. If there were more of them out there certainly. But I bet a smart shopper could land one low enough. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Leonard Taupier <len-001@verizon.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:01:29 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Support group > > Phil, > > Get a plastic snap-in guard for your M4 eyepiece. DAG sells them for > $15. They fit all the older M bodies with the metal eyepiece. I > bought one for my M2 and M4. They're a real eyeglass saver. They just > snap over the existing eyepiece. > > Len > > > On Nov 28, 2008, at 1:49 AM, Philip Forrest wrote: > >> I own and regularly shoot a Leica M4 with a few very fine lenses from >> Leica, Canon and Nikon. >> I recently picked up a Konica Hexar and can't >> stop taking photos with it. The lower magnification in the VF and the >> little rubber ring around the eyepiece are a godsend for me when >> wearing glasses. >> I also regularly carry around either a Diax IIa or an Adox Adrette II >> with 50mm Xenon lens for compactness. >> Lately I have become enamored with Nikon rangefinders. I've only >> handled one just once before in my life and that was 5 years ago, >> before I got my first Leica M and the Nikon was a black paint SP. >> Incredible. Now I find myself fantasizing about shooting an S2 with a >> 50mm f/1.4 lens. Not a lofty goal and not the pinnacle of Nikon RF's >> either. >> I'm not a collector. I'm a user and abuser. My cameras get beat up >> unless I don't like them in which case they don't get used and then >> get >> sold. My feelings are that a support group is almost necessary for >> this >> hopeless addiction to incredible mechanical tools like these cameras. >> Apologies for the OT ramble. >> Phil Forrest >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information