I found this site by someone who is fairly new to using Leica cameras, but writes about them with a lot of clarity and appreciation. Nothing totally new here, but extremely well presented. Check the link at the bottom on buying Leica -- some good advise for the new potential users.

http://duane_birkey.tripod.com/leica/leica.html

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), October 02, 2000

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Thanks Andrew, Interesting site. I wonder what Duane's resume said when he applied for the job of staff photographer for a radio station that is "The Voice Of The Andes"? I should try that. Hmmmmm...The Voice Of Maui; has a nice ring to it.

-- Steve Hoffman (musicmavin@earthlink.net), October 02, 2000.

All I get is "Sorry..." and switched to another web site.

-- Bill Mitchell (bmitch@home.com), October 02, 2000.

Just tried it again Bill, and it took me right there. maybe you hit a traffic jam. Here is his home page with a link to his leica article at the Bottom of his "Archive" section on the left side of the home page-maybe this will work for you.

http://duane_birkey.tripod.com/index.html

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), October 02, 2000.

Duane told me he was working on his site tonight. Try tomorrow!

-- Steve Hoffman (musicmavin@earthlink.net), October 03, 2000.

Duane Emailed me that we was updating his site tonight. Try tomorrow!

-- Steve Hoffman (musicmavin@earthlink.net), October 03, 2000.

Check out www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/5799/lecalink.htm for heaps of Leica stuff including Duane Birkey's site. Hope this is useful

-- David Killick (dalex@inet.net.nz), October 03, 2000.

Bill,

I think you assumed (as I did) that the web address was prefaced with "www." - well, for some technical reason that escapes me, the address should be typed exactly as Andrew Schank writes it. By the way there are some rather nice pictures at the site and even in web format you can enjoy the lack of distortion (ho ho

-- Steve Jones c/o above (rob@onlinewales.co.uk), October 03, 2000.

It still doesn't work....

-- Robin Smith (rsmith@springer-ny.com), October 05, 2000.

Robin,

I just went on without any problem 1740 HRS today. Are you typing it in manually? I used the mouse, Highlighted the address, right mouse / "copy"... go to search engine bar, highlight, right mouse / "paste"... hit the "go" command. It come up everytime for me like that.

PS... I used the first address in the initial post.

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), October 05, 2000.