Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/27

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Subject: [Leica] Buying Leica.....
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:53:14 +0100
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Tina,

I still have mine and it works perfectly. Mine was my University graduation
present to myself, that was in 1974. Wonderful camera, especially with the 
1.2 lens.

Peter

On 27/06/2013 02:31, Tina Manley wrote:
> 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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> 

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Dr Peter Dzwig                          



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