why do people take leicas to the photo expo ?

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This previous wednesday I went to the photo expo at the Javits center in New York . There I was amazed as to how many people were walking around with leicas .... . What for , to photograph the other leicas ? Just an observation !

-- leonid kotlyar (murka@webtv.net), November 04, 2000

Answers

Maybe its the correct fashion accessory to have so you look like you are in the know about photography. You might have gotten an interesting shot of a group of people milling about looking at the expo all with Leicas hanging from their necks. I think that could be a humorous image.

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), November 04, 2000.

When I go to a camera show I "wear" my Leica M6 with an Imarect and 35mm Summilux. It lets the exhibitors know that I am a serious collector, and can appreciate and afford to purchase any items that I might ask to examine, not just "kicking tires" and wasting their time.

-- Bill Mitchell (bmitch@home.com), November 04, 2000.

One doesn't dare take any other camera! A lizard skin model would be the best, though, of course.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@mail.com), November 05, 2000.

Remember nothing is really sold at the expo , it is only displayed .

-- leonid kotlyar (murka@webtv.net), November 05, 2000.

I went to the opera on Friday night. My girlfriend was wearing black pants and I was wearing black pants and a black turtleneck. How did we accessorize? With the M6, of course! The black body with silver accent was perfect.

Oh, boy, that's scary...

{Actually, it was a good crowd photography scene with the 35/1.4. Seattle's opera crowd is very amusing: half black-tie, half gortext and fleece.}

fh

-- Fergus Hammond (fhammond@adobe.com), November 05, 2000.



At the last photo jumble I was at, an exhibiter noticed my Leica and motioned me over. He dug around in his bag and came up with a mint lens hood for a 50/1.2 Noctilux. A very rare item indeed. I bought it for $68US and passed it on to a Leica-user group member who needed one (for the same price of course).

-- John Collier (jbcollier@home.com), November 06, 2000.

My M6 seems to generate an quite a bit of comment here in Japan, all of it friendly. People are quite camera aware here, especially retired men, an huge proportion of whom pursue photography as a hobby, or so it seems. So its hardly an unobtrusive street camera. I also see many people with CLs and Minolta CLEs. The Japanese have a thing about simplicity and smallness and Leicas seem to fit a certain aesthetic, if that's the right word.

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), November 06, 2000.

Obviously, one of the great benefits of the M series Leica is that they are so easy to carry along everywhere. I once encountered a group of Orthodox Jews praying together in a remote part of a convention exhibition hall at the PMA Show in Las Vegas. A Leica M would have been very handy to have at that moment indeed!

-- KL Prager (www.pragerproperties@att.net), November 06, 2000.

$68US for a lens hood?

-- Robert Roaldi (robert@terren.com), November 08, 2000.

OK, how about $75 for a hood for the 35mm Summilux? I wanted it . . .

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@juno.com), November 11, 2000.


Some cute answers there, but would you take you M6 to the opera like Eisenstadt ? - and dress in a black tie as well !

-- Anthony Brookes (gdz00@lineone.net), November 25, 2000.

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