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Last week i went on a photo shoot for a client in one of the busiest African markets located in one of the worst parts of Johannesburg South-Africa. I had to take photos of the illegal animal (pangolin) trade. I wore my oldest clothes and took

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my workhorse ...Leica M8 plus Summicron 50mm. At one stage two suspicious characters came up to me : the one saying let's mug him and take the camera. I understood his dialect as I speak a few African languages. The other on looked at me and said : " Let's leave the poor man, look at his clothes and the old camera he uses, it is not worth the trouble...."

I just smiled as I walked away.

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An apartment I use to live in got broken into while I was living there. The thief passed over two or three Leica-M lenses on my dining room table and took an old iPod and old Canon video camera.

BTW, that is the most disreputable looking M8 I've ever seen. My M8.2 is showing brass but nothing like that. Congrats, Walter!!

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BTW, that is the most disreputable looking M8 I've ever seen. My M8.2 is showing brass but nothing like that. Congrats, Walter!!

 

That's nothing. See our very own Tina Manley's Leica.

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Great story Walter. I've walked around some pretty dodgy parts of Fiji, Panama and Cairo with my M9 and no one even looks twice while a friend with a Nikon and large zoom was getting scoped out by many people.

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The Lenny Kravitz M looks a beginner compared to these  beauties! We should make a competition here, best Lenny M8 Award :-)

Mine can compete but will not win :-(

 

John

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I second the motion for the "Lenny" award for most-worn, most-used, dare I say, "ugliest" Leica.  Cameras must be in operational condition and all wear must be attributable to actual use by photographers.

 

Eric

 

P.S.  Why do I keep repeating in my head, "dodgy Fiji, dodgy Fiji, dodgy Fiji ..."

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The Lenny Kravitz M looks a beginner compared to these  beauties! We should make a competition here, best Lenny M8 Award :-)

 

How about an M4.

 

brassedm4.jpg

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Last week i went on a photo shoot for a client in one of the busiest African markets located in one of the worst parts of Johannesburg South-Africa. I had to take photos of the illegal animal (pangolin) trade. I wore my oldest clothes and tookattachicon.gif200.JPG my workhorse ...Leica M8 plus Summicron 50mm. At one stage two suspicious characters came up to me : the one saying let's mug him and take the camera. I understood his dialect as I speak a few African languages. The other on looked at me and said : " Let's leave the poor man, look at his clothes and the old camera he uses, it is not worth the trouble...."

I just smiled as I walked away.

Any chance of a peek at your reportage?

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My house got broken into whilst I was alseep earlier this year - before the armed intruder woke me up he must have wandered around my house: the fridge door was open, and in the living room my glass coffee table was cracked- it seems the intruder picked up my M240 before accidentally dropping it on the table. I don't think he was expecting the weight and it slipped... Good news is he left it where it lay- perhaps having decided it looked too old to be worth anything. Also could have been that noise that woke me- which was lucky- as I was able to leap out of bed and kick my bedroom door into the guys face when I spied him looming there holding a large kitchen knife! Then he tried to steal my car- he already stole my keys- only it wouldn't start becuse the immobilizer fell off the keyring the week before! Ha Ha. He had to flee on foot- with the police not far behind.

 

More good news: Bastard is living behind bars now- awaiting trial- which won't go well for him. :)

 

Nice M8 story! Saved from a mugging by a bit of brassing!

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