[Leica] eighteen years a Leica person

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

Thirty years this year for me.
No Ms though.
I traded everything I had for an 11 year old SL and a 50 Summicron.
Still have both, use all the time.
I've regretted most things I've sold, exceptions being trading in R bodies 
'til I arrived at my R8 bodies/DMR, selling my 250 to Jim Nichols (he's 
already gotten far more good out of it than I ever could)
Biggest regret? Sold a 35 Summicron R, V2 for 300 bucks :(

> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:38:48 -0400
> From: images at comporium.net
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] eighteen years a Leica person
> 
> Well, it's been 31 years for me as a Leica user and I still have almost
> every Leica camera and lens that I ever bought.  I regretted selling the 
> few
> I did sell, so I'm just keeping them and using them!
> 1 M3, 2 M4s, 6 M6s, 1 M7, 2 M8s, 1 M9 1 R6.2, 1 R8, 1 R9 and I have slept
> with them many, many times - usually in hammocks or sleeping bags.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Eighteen years ago today a long time dream came true for me and I became 
> > a
> > Leica shooter as I swung my first M6 though some financial accident that 
> > I
> > forgot about.  I was temporary financially unembarrassed. I'd gotten a 
> > new
> > 50mm Summicron with it and still have both.
> > I used to swim laps every morning and with every stroke on the upswing 
> > when
> > my face came out of the water I  pre visualized a Leica M6.  Every 
> > morning
> > for months I'm sure. I was obsessed. Me shooting with one.  It sitting in
> > my
> > camera bag. It seemed like an impossible dream. That was 1993.
> > It was not until 1998 when I joined the LHSA Leica Historical Society of
> > America with the simple act of sending in the subscription stub to the
> > Viewfinder Magazine. At my first meeting that year in Denver I met Tom A.
> > smoking a pipe outside of a meeting hall and I said "what's going on in
> > there?" and he said "its a LUG meeting" and I said "what's a LUG 
> > meeting?"
> > and within a year I was a registered LugNut posting hourly odd ramblings 
> > to
> > the list ...  As the tech guy when you call Hasselblad called us when I
> > called in there one day around then.
> > If you told me then that my Leica would  be festering in my camera chest
> > for
> > five years while I played with some other new technology I'd have called
> > you
> > a damn liar to your face! But the world moves in mysterious ways.
> > So as it happened ten years after becoming a Leica M6 person I got my 
> > first
> > digital SLR a D100 for $1699.95 2 July 2003 and it was all downhill from
> > there. I do think its the most exciting time to be a photographer since
> > Daguerre  got together with Ni?pce to see if they could improve Ni?pce's
> > process resulting in  Ni?pce  dropping dead and Daguerre coming out with
> > the
> > Daguerreotype in 1839; proving the importance of rubber gloves in the
> > darkroom  and don't drink from an unlabeled beaker.
> > And that's the history of photography as it relates to me.
> > - I'm off to go make a Rabuerreotype.
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Mark William Rabiner
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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