Popular Post LUF Admin Posted September 25, 2022 Popular Post Share #1 Posted September 25, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) A few days ago I got surprising congratulations on LinkedIn for a „company anniversary“. Since I have entered all my numerous discussion forums as companies, I first had to look up which one could be meant and has an anniversary. Mild shock:I almost missed the 20th birthday of the Leica Forum! Since the history of the forum is a bit confusing, there is no 100% official start date: Everything started around 2000 as a discussion corner on the official Leica Camera website, the first "real" Leica Forum was launched with the start of photokina 2002 on September 25, 2002 - this date is something like the official birthday of the real Leica Forum. Due a technical miracle (and a lot of semi-competent muddling through), we've managed to keep our user accounts since this September 25, posts and pictures only go back to May 2006. What makes me proud: Many users of the first hour are still active today! @elmars @michael_b@ferdinand @hverheyen @rsolomon @alexander @bobtodrick @V.Tube @martin @pascal_meheut @thomas_schertel @philippflettner @jpattison @reuter @kgs @leicameter @jcraf @robert_parker I will spare you longer anniversary speeches and anecdotes from my side, just so much from my side: Many thanks to all who made this success story possible! A short and definitely incomplete list: Our volunteer moderators - current and former - without whom the forum would not run: @andybarton @jaapv @erl @pop @Rona!d @BlackDoc @ferdinand @Olaf W. @abrewer @Timothy D @stuny @ferdinand @Summi Cron @AlanJW @digitalfx @jc_braconi Many, many Leica employees from Marketing, Product Management, Sales, Project and Quality Management, Executive Board and Supervisory Board, who have supported us in the most diverse ways (not least by reliably supplying material for discussion) All premium members and advertising partners (currently Dan Tamarkin, Sam Shoshan and Jan Dittmer), who help to make sure that I can offer the forum in the long run without going broke And of course to all active members - you make the forum a real community! Do you have an anecdote, a picture, an experience or whatever that you associate with the Leica Forum? Feel free to share it here! And now raise your glasses - Here's to the next 20 years! Andreas 27 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gibbo Posted September 25, 2022 Share #2 Posted September 25, 2022 Cheers and congratulations 🥳 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted September 25, 2022 Share #3 Posted September 25, 2022 Congratulations and thanks! Pleased to know John and Robert from the first hour boys, so well done to them as well! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted September 25, 2022 Share #4 Posted September 25, 2022 (edited) Cheers and congratulations 🥳 whoops, double post Edited September 25, 2022 by Gibbo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 25, 2022 Share #5 Posted September 25, 2022 Congratulations Andreas. It’s been a pleasure to be part of the forum and I have made some good friends here over the years. I had a “nom-de-forum” in the early Leica-owned days, while I was researching a Digilux 1 for a family holiday in Florida (that I never did get to buy). I had to settle for the Panasonic version. In 2003, after a crap day at the office, I went into David Stephens’ crack-den in Manchester and came out with my M2 and a 50 Summicron. Have been hooked ever since of course 😊 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted September 25, 2022 Share #6 Posted September 25, 2022 Impressive, and thanks for all your work, Andreas! Joined in 2011. I'd had a M2 for decades, but was using mainly digital Canon P&S. I discovered Leica had actually made a full frame M: I bought the M9 and signed up here. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2022 Share #7 Posted September 25, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) 7 minutes ago, andybarton said: I went into David Stephens’ crack-den in Manchester Similar experience to me. Went past one day in 2019 and just out of curiosity I went in. Had a look around and a chat, that led to a loaner for an hour. That was it I was hooked. Bought my M10-R and 50mm Summilux in October ‘21. Sixish months later I had my second, an M4-P. Happy Birthday LUF, here’s to the next 20. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianman Posted September 25, 2022 Share #8 Posted September 25, 2022 Congratulations Andreas and the team! Without LUF I would have missed out meeting some very nice people, both online and in person (some of whom I see reached the party early and are already a bit tipsy, making double posts… ) , so than your for that and for the forum itself! Happy birthday! 🥂🍻🎂 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted September 25, 2022 Share #9 Posted September 25, 2022 Thank you for providing the place for us to meet, to discuss, to sometimes disagree, and to show our pictures, Andreas, and congratulations on the forum's anniversary! As ell an online I have had the pleasure of meeting many, many forum members 'in the flesh' and I'd find it hard to think of one I didn't like; meeting them has literally taken me all around the world, which is a benefit in itself and something I thoroughly enjoy. Long may the L-Camera-Forum thrive! Pete. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted September 25, 2022 Share #10 Posted September 25, 2022 Happy anniversary everyone! I have learned a lot from you, had lots of fun with many members during various One Challenge weekends and made some really great friends here over the years. Thanks Andreas for bringing us all together. Cheers! Carl 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted September 25, 2022 Share #11 Posted September 25, 2022 Congratulations Andreas . Joined in September 2002 too and i have good memories of that time and colleagues like albertknappmd, alessandro, bobtodrick, edkwan, ejc, george, hamey, haris, hektor, john_f, john_mead, leicapages, lincoln_m, mgcd, pascal_meheut, pelizza, pxlpal, rené, respanhol, robert_parker, samwells, steed2, steve_hoffman, symmetron and tess, some of whom have left us unfortunately. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 25, 2022 Share #12 Posted September 25, 2022 14 minutes ago, lct said: tess 👋 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted September 25, 2022 Share #13 Posted September 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, andybarton said: 👋 Hehe we were discussing about the enormous difference between the Digilux 1 and the Panasonic LC-5 then . 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 25, 2022 Share #14 Posted September 25, 2022 The Leica was definitely worth the extra £300…! Or, maybe not. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGodParticle/Hari Posted September 25, 2022 Share #15 Posted September 25, 2022 Congrats Andreas, and a big thank you to all the Moderators for the great work 🎉👏 Cheers to the fellow members for all the fun 🍻🙌 To the next 20! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michali Posted September 25, 2022 Share #16 Posted September 25, 2022 Congratulations Andreas! Thank you for running an excellent forum which has provided us with an opportunity to learn, share knowledge, techniques and images. After many years of shooting with an M3 & then a DIGILUX 2, I joined the Forum in Dec 2007 after buying an M8. This was the first image I posted on the Forum, taken at the top of a massive dune in the Namib Desert which took forever to climb. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 13 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/337188-happy-birthday-dear-leica-forum/?do=findComment&comment=4516596'>More sharing options...
SrMi Posted September 25, 2022 Share #17 Posted September 25, 2022 Congratulations, and thank you for this forum! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannes Posted September 25, 2022 Share #18 Posted September 25, 2022 Congratulations Andreas! Thank you for this forum! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert Posted September 25, 2022 Share #19 Posted September 25, 2022 Thank you Andreas for keeping the forum breathing. I started on March 3, 2003 with a Leica D-1. There was a very talented fellow named Daniel Drabek from California. Daniel, quite often , would repost members images with added realistic bullet holes shot through them. Times have changed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted September 25, 2022 Share #20 Posted September 25, 2022 Congratulations and thanks for providing much enjoyment for many years. I joined in 2003 and have made a lot of Leica friends during all those years (and probably a few enemies). It's always been fun, interesting, informative. The only down side is that it has many times stoked my GAS fires and cost me a lot of money. 😁 Cheers! Brent 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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