leicaluke Posted January 28, 2012 Share #1 Posted January 28, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) yes, yes.. i know its asking ALOT.. but I was wondering if anyone here would be ever so kind to lend me a leica (film/digital) for a few days.. i have never tried the M system and dont have a dealer anywhere near me to go try one out.. so.. before I drop a couple grand I would love to try one. It is asking alot, but you would have my word that I would return it in a timely manner and it would return in the same quality as it was if not better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 Hi leicaluke, Take a look here could I borrow...?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
earleygallery Posted January 28, 2012 Share #2 Posted January 28, 2012 Just a thought, might help if you said where you are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JATA Posted January 28, 2012 Share #3 Posted January 28, 2012 Yeah sure, why don't you take all my camera gear, do you need my car to transport it all back home, and how about my credit card just in case you need fuel. Why don't you take my wife and kids while you're at it:D Or you could do what I did years back and buy a Yashica electro 35 to see if you're into rangefinders and go from there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted January 28, 2012 Share #4 Posted January 28, 2012 No need to be quite so paranoid. A local Leica meet is a great chance to try out some piece of gear that you're interested in, assuming another member has it and is happy to let you try it out. I've tried an M9 and several M and R lenses at our meets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicaluke Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share #5 Posted January 28, 2012 I'm in the Grand Rapids area in michigan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB_tx Posted January 28, 2012 Share #6 Posted January 28, 2012 I'm in the Grand Rapids area in michigan. Sorry, I moved far away from there in 1969... It appears the Leica dealers there have vanished also. Too bad, many dealers will rent Leica demos. There are places like Lensrentals.com that rent both M9 bodies and lenses, but a 4-day trial would dent your budget. Any photo clubs left where you might contact Leica owners? Like perhaps: Grand Rapids Camera Club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted January 28, 2012 Share #7 Posted January 28, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) No, you may not. Every single thing, but one (a book) I've loaned in the past twenty years was destroyed or 'lost'. I'd take a deposit in cash first in your case. A LOT of cash. Come on - there are rental agencies, such as in Chicago and so-forth you can use. So go there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted January 28, 2012 Share #8 Posted January 28, 2012 Yeah right, never used one but you don't mind experimenting with mine. Go and take a flying leap off the nearest cliff Either piss or get off the pot, just do it, buy something, at todays Leica prices you can hardly loose a lot of money even if it costs a lot of money. Given that you alarmingly don't seem to care whether it is digital or analogue try a Leica M2 and a 50mm Elmar, bought preferably from a dealer so it is serviced and clean and won't give you a bad impression. But please, you may do better if you asked some people if you could borrow their wife and not their Leica. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kivis Posted January 29, 2012 Share #9 Posted January 29, 2012 I have a policy. Anyone can borrow anything of mine for as long as they want, as long as they don't leave my house with it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicaluke Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share #10 Posted January 29, 2012 Ehh.. should have thought as much. My humble nikon is better than a classy M in a glass case anyways. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sterlinstarlin Posted January 29, 2012 Share #11 Posted January 29, 2012 Ehh.. should have thought as much. My humble nikon is better than a classy M in a glass case anyways. It's not about keeping cameras in a glass case leicaluke. Just buy an M body and lens used. Sell the kit if you don't like it. You can also rent a camera. I really don't think it's common practice for anyone to loan a stranger something of significant value, both in use, and expense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
too old to care Posted January 29, 2012 Share #12 Posted January 29, 2012 From the answers you can see how much we love our cameras. It is not that we would not loan one to a trusted friend, but get serious, a total stranger several hundred miles away? As others have said, look for a camera club in your area and join it, rent one, or buy something similar to see if you even like range finders. If you are used to SLRs you may not appreciate a range finder. I grew up on range finders and had hard time accepting an SLR when I got my first one. Too noisy, heavy, big, finder blacked out when shot…..etc. My first ranger finder was an Argus C3, still have it. You can buy those for $50 bucks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio58 Posted January 29, 2012 Share #13 Posted January 29, 2012 yes, yes.. i know its asking ALOT.. but I was wondering if anyone here would be ever so kind to lend me a leica (film/digital) for a few days.. . sure you can borrow mine. Come over and pick it up :D:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted January 29, 2012 Share #14 Posted January 29, 2012 Ehh.. should have thought as much. My humble nikon is better than a classy M in a glass case anyways. Make that a sulky stranger who wants to borrow a Leica. You see it would never have worked. You have had some constructive advice (particularly about the Yashica Electro), it just doesn't seem that people want to stop using their cameras while you borrow it, unless you assume we all have Leica bodies and lenses to spare? Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted January 29, 2012 Share #15 Posted January 29, 2012 Buy a cheap rangefinder, Olympus 36sp should cost peanuts, or better a Voigtlander R2 and a lens. If you like that you know that the leica M experience will be even better! Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicaluke Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share #16 Posted January 29, 2012 It's not about keeping cameras in a glass case leicaluke. Just buy an M body and lens used. Sell the kit if you don't like it. You can also rent a camera. I really don't think it's common practice for anyone to loan a stranger something of significant value, both in use, and expense. I realize that they aren't meant to be. they are tools. but it seams like some people spend that much and then are afraid to use them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JATA Posted January 29, 2012 Share #17 Posted January 29, 2012 Don't forget that some people collect Nikon's in glass cases as well. Save up your own money and get your own "tool" like everyone else. If your humble Nikon is so good (and they are) what do you need a Leica for anyway. It won't make you a better photographer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicaluke Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share #18 Posted January 29, 2012 Like i said in a previous post.. i am pursuing photojournalism, and although my nikon is good and I love it there are times when a smaller camera become much easier to navigate in some situations. (and much less intimidating than a 4 pound rig pointing in someones face) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aesop Posted January 29, 2012 Share #19 Posted January 29, 2012 Like i said in a previous post.. i am pursuing photojournalism, and although my nikon is good and I love it there are times when a smaller camera become much easier to navigate in some situations. (and much less intimidating than a 4 pound rig pointing in someones face) ...you're reading but not listening, leicaluke. As far as I can see, nobody here (from collector to avid shooter) is going to hand over their Leica hardware to a total stranger. It is that simple. And not unreasonable. Good luck in all your endeavours. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted January 29, 2012 Share #20 Posted January 29, 2012 Like i said in a previous post.. i am pursuing photojournalism, and although my nikon is good and I love it there are times when a smaller camera become much easier to navigate in some situations. (and much less intimidating than a 4 pound rig pointing in someones face) There are true photojournalists working in war zones that use 'bridge' cameras because they don't attract attention, and they are cheap enough to throw away. Buy two (or more) for the price of one Leica lens and they will put any good photographer into contention for any prize they are after. There are some dreamers who buy into the age old myth of Leica's being discrete and annonymous, but the iPhone put paid to that. Go anywhere and nobody pays any heed if you are holding aloft a camera phone. Indeed it is the real working photographer that finds the perpetual faceless snappers getting in his way. Do some photo stories with your Nikon, people have done in the past. They have been shot at with guns and covered intimate social stories all with a Nikon F. A Leica gets no different pictures, it is simply the form factor of prefering a rangefinder over an SLR, or visa versa. Getting precious about equipment isn't what photojournalists do, they just have a preference. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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