Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/16

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Subject: [Leica] First camera
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:30:55 -0500
References: <AANLkTimghsDgVJhefqmBZnb2P9N0szgN2_hPWRBzHJQS@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimOY7mh4jcRrJVe8Ee7RibA_EvEdi=PM4EqEdxJ@mail.gmail.com>
 
My first RF was a Retina II. But soon any photographer worth his salt had to 
have an SLR, even if they never bought anything other than a 50/2 lens. So I 
got a Mamiya 500 TL. The impression that I got from reading the Time/Life 
photography series was that a Leica M was thing to have if your were a 
photojournalist because of its reliability. It didn't occur to me at the 
time that people using Leica M cameras were shooting in one day the volume I 
shot in 6 months.

Jeffery
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] First camera)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] First camera)