Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/17

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Subject: [Leica] USING (GASP!) Leicas
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:22:03 -0700
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Reminds me of being accosted as a college student 1983. My bag full of 
Minolta SRTs XDs XEs and a gazillion lenses was stolen. Insurance gave me 
what appeared to a 19 year old to be a huge check. Took it to Citizen's 
Photo and a wonderful rep, Don Leap, turned something like 5 or 7 Minoltas 
and a scad of lenses and motors and strobes etc into ONE M4-P with a black 
MR-4 and a new 50 f2 and used fat 90 2.8.  

wait, Don, I had fisheye to super tele 87 1.7, VFC, etc etc etc and now? 
Alas. ONE CAMERA TWO Lenses STICK ON METER? WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAT?

Went on holiday at Christmas to Hawaii (Oahu I was boring at time)....at the 
mall purchasing film from the Leica dealer camera store at Ala Moana (sp)

Leaving store, bag of film, M4-P around neck when a gentleman from another 
culture walks up to me and literally started lecturing me about damaging an 
icon. "Look, I am a poor college student, this is my only camera, you can 
buy a new one right there at that store and seal it in a case keeping yours 
new forever" had NO impact on the man. I felt like an uncouth savage. I 
still have the M4-P. It has been to 5 continents and never failed. It 
probably has a couple million miles on it and looks like it. Poor guy would 
probably have me put to death if he know how much film I have run through 
that camera...

Fast forwarding many years. Camera World here in Portland sold to Ritz 
(1990s). CW had a GOLD Pentax LX I acquired with the collectible inventory. 
I sold it (to a collector in Japan) with the stipulation that I run a roll 
of film through it (he made me wear white cotton gloves)...

Here's to Leica users!


Mark


On Jul 17, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> But it's also true that we film users (even though I do also use an
> M9) get flack because we use film on this film. Go figure eh?
> 
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> NO! NO! NO!
>> 
>> I'll bet that fewer than 10% of us own M8s or M9s. OK, maybe 20% of us. 
>> The
>> LUG is the Leica User's List, but some of us don't even own Leicas. With 
>> one
>> exception, a CL, all the Leicas I own were made before 1955. Dwight D.
>> Eisenhower was President of the U.S. then.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton) ([Leica] USING (GASP!) Leicas)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Leica M8 and M9 list)
Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Leica M8 and M9 list)