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 a pair of Leicaflex SLs & two R lenses: 60mm Macro-Elmarit-R and 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R. > On May 5, 2025, at 11:27?AM, Dennis Kushner via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information