Musotographer Posted January 17, 2016 Share #1 Posted January 17, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello everyone - Apparently I have been a member here for eighteen months, though I think I’ve been a regular visitor for only a short while. I’ve only just found this thread, in which I should have introduced myself some time ago - it's probably rather redundant to do so now, after I've made quite a few posts, but here goes anyway...... I am a musician (mainly in the opera world) and live in south London. I bought my first Leica, an M9P, just over two years ago, and it has transformed the pleasure I get from photography. I had my first camera, an Instamatic (remember Flash Cubes?!), when I was about ten, and my first 'proper' camera, a Contax 139 with a couple of Zeiss lenses, twenty years later after borrowing a friend's Pentax SLR and getting hooked. I used mainly Kodachrome and Fujichrome in it; it went all over the world with me and was a complete joy - some of my photos from then are still some of my favourites. In the 90s I was seduced by the convenience of digital and my picture-taking declined into snapping with a succession of Canon pocket cameras. Then one day about four years ago I picked up the old Contax again and realised what I had been missing; I very quickly acquired a used 5D2 and some nice L glass and had quite a lot of fun with it. Inevitably though, its weight and size meant that more often than not it was left at home, and I never did bond with the hi-tech electronic side of it. Aargh! - no aperture ring!! By chance I started reading about Leica, of which I had barely heard, and I became fascinated, almost obsessed, and read everything I could find. Eventually the inevitable happened, and I found a lovely used silver M9P at Richard Caplan at a price I could just about manage, though I could hardly believe that I was letting myself go through with it. Six months later I offloaded the Canon gear as I had barely touched it since the Leica arrived (though I did miss the splendid, if brutal, Canon 85mm 1.2 lens, which I later managed to replace with a 75 Summilux - even better!) I did try a 240 for a few weeks, when my M9 sensor got the dreaded lurgy, but thankfully went back to another M9P. It has taught me more in two years than I have learnt from other cameras over decades, because it addresses the basics so simply and because my fingers constantly itch to pick it up and use it. I am also learning so much from this forum and from you all who are so generous with your knowledge, artistry and encouragement, and usually very courteously. Thank you! Christopher Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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