[Leica] USING (GASP!) Leicas

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

Pretty much my story too; traded Minoltas and lenses plus 50 bucks for an SL 
and a 50 2.0.
Still have, use both regularly, but the DMR gets the most use :)

> From: mak at teleport.com
> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:22:03 -0700
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] USING (GASP!) Leicas
> 
> 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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