Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/26

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Subject: [Leica] Buying Leica.....
From: gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:35:32 -0500
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Me too Tina
Traded SRTs, 4 lenses, + accesories for an SL w/50 2.0. It was a good move :)

> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:31:44 -0400
> From: images at comporium.net
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica]  Buying Leica.....
> 
> Yes. I started with a Minolta SRT101 because that's all I could afford. As
> soon as I could afford to, I switched to Leica.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
> > John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
> >
> >>
> >>Doesn't matter, there were not the choices that there are now...
> >>
> >
> > There were different choices to be sure... off the top of my head:
> Pentaxes and minoltas of various grades, Practicas, Canon SLRs and
> rangefinders, Konica SLRs and Ricoh fixed-lens P&S, the Nikon F and
> Nikkormats, Instamatics from cheap disposables to Kodak SLRs with Schneider
> lenses.  Most if not all were substantially less costly than the
> contemporaneous Leicas.
> >
> > Doug Herr
> > Birdman of Sacramento
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley
> http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
> 
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