Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I still have my Canon F1N although sold all of my pro lenses. Also my Pentax MX from 1977. I do have to sell my M6 that I had CLA's & frames fixed & latest rangefinder 3 years ago. My medical use of oxygen makes it too difficult to do street shooting in NYC & Philly. Considering a Q3 monochrome to use nearby my home. On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 8:28?AM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Sonny, > I had a Leica M3 by 1965, long before I acquired one of the IIIFs (the > second was a pristine complete set I purchased from Luis a decade or so > ago), but I sold that, with three lenses, when I went digital, because, at > that time, 20 or so years ago, that was the only bit of kit that had any > monetary value! ? > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 5:21?PM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > We had similar paths, Leica IIIf, Rollei, and Nikon F and F2. My first > 35 > > was an Agfa Silette SLE. I was fifteen when I bought it at the Base > > Exchange at Rhein Main AFB. It cost something like $250, and that was > a > > fortune earned by endless weekend and summer hours at a hotel restaurant > on > > base. I still have it and it works, with not a bit of rust. > > > > Regards, > > Sonny > > www.SonC.Com/Look > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 6:34?AM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < > > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > > > > I was idling away my time photographing the few film cameras I still > have > > > with me as a record as they are all taking turns on going for a CLA - > > which > > > entails a six month round trip to Asit Latif at Kolkata. All but two of > > my > > > hoard are here. The missing ones are a Mamiya 645E and a Canon VI, > > because > > > the former is with my son, and the latter is with Asif. Somehow, I > cannot > > > bring myself to sell them, as they are such beautiful examples of > > > mechanical perfection. These are just record shots with no pretense at > > > perfection: > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/OddsAndEnds/Cameras/ > > > > > > Cheers > > > Jayanand > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information