I have detected some Leica love here that seems a little un-natural if you catch my drift. For those people I have posted this illustration by Ursula Benser from a book by Walther Benser dated 1959.

 

Hope this works anyway.

Enjoy

-- Rick Campbell (rcampbell@marylhurst.edu), May 28, 2002

Answers

Guess I don't have the magic touch. The illustration can be found here:

http://info.marylhurst.edu/is/leica_love.jpg

-- Rick Campbell (rcampbell@marylhurst.edu), May 28, 2002.

One more try?

 

-- Rick Campbell (rcampbell@marylhurst.edu), May 28, 2002.

If only that were an M7 in his lap!

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), May 28, 2002.

yeah, That old, wrinkly and dry Leica does nothing for me. Replace that with a young smooth sensual M7! OOOH AHHHH;#

-- Karl Yik (karl.yik@dk.com), May 28, 2002.

I disagree. There's something quite sensual about a 'screw mount' Leica. :-)

-- Eliot (erosen@lij.edu), May 28, 2002.

he should gaze down on a noctilux!!!

-- gary brown (drdad1111@yahoo.com), May 28, 2002.

Is that a Collapsible Summicron in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

-- Paul Chefurka (paul@chefurka.com), May 28, 2002.

Well, at least, she's about ready to draw a Social Security check (obviously approaching age 60).

-- George C. Berger (gberger@his.com), May 28, 2002.

You should see the inprint on the oroginal bookcover: itīs a golden motif on a blue cover. Looks really neat, every LTM-Lover should have one of Bensers books.

Unfortunately I canīt post the slide I made from this sometime ago.

Best regards

-- K. G. Wolf (k.g.wolf@web.de), May 28, 2002.

Every time I use the little spring-loaded button on the 50mm f3.5 Elmar's focusing lever, it reminds me of ... err ... something else ;)

The same kind of effect happens when you draw the edge of your finger along the film advance knob.

Using a Leica screw mount camera is definitely a sensual experience.

Joe

-- Joe Buechler (jbuechler@toad.net), May 28, 2002.

I have to mount mine to screw it. Sometimes there is a little grease or lubrication on the inside. I have to hide it from my wife. I don't like knowing that other people screwed and mounted before me. I have to wear a strap around my neck. Often coated in a supple leather. The knobs are instinctively in the right places. I hear that other people have a hard time loading it and stumble around before finally getting it in properly. I cover up the round, red dot. I only mount a 90-50-90 combination. Expensive. I often wish I could send it back to te factory for an update and tightening. I stay up late at night and chat with others with similar habits in a Forum.

-- Too much time... (onmyhands@bored.com), May 28, 2002.

90-50-90? I'm more of a 35-21-35 man, but to each his own.

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), May 28, 2002.

Are cameras female? Yes, they are, at least the German ones!

You can tell, just by looking anyway:

Operating instructions for a man: on switch, off switch. That's it.

Operating instructions for a woman: numerous buttons to push, and they all have to be done in the right sequence BEFORE releasing the shutter.

-- David Killick (Dalex@inet.net.nz), May 29, 2002.

German cameras are females? Phew, thank God I've got a Leica!

-- Fendy Tjhin (fendushi@cbn.net.id), May 29, 2002.

Friends!

A few fractured literary Leica Love references

"To Solmes she was alway THE Leica..."

--Sir Arthur Canon Red Dial

"The Song of Songs, which is Solomes

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"I compare you, my Leica, to a mare of Paraoh's chariots. Your every-ready case is comely with ornaments, your neck strap with strings of jewels. We will make you an ornament of gold studden with silver, a commemorative limited edition.

How do I love thee, how do I love thee? Let my Leica dealer count the ways.

"All happy Leicas are alike, each broken down Leica is broken down in its own way."

--Lev Leicavich Tolstoy

Daisy to Gatsby:

"I've never sen so many beautiful Leicas!"

--F. Scott Fitzbarnack

-- Alex Shishin (shishin@suma.kobe-wu.ac.jp), May 30, 2002.