Charlie, I think I got mine at the NY Camera Exchange. I had heard these rumblings about the Leica but when I started to see the negatives, I knew that here was something special. Thanks for the 4/3rds Dave ________________________________ From: Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, November 23, 2009 9:41:10 PM Subject: [LRflex] Re: Introduction David Simms wrote: Hi, fellow Leicaphiles; >My name's Dave. I'm a retired physics teacher who has used Leicas since 1967 >when I bought my first Leica, a 3F with the 50mm Elmar f3.5, from a place in >New York for $38. >Dave, Welcome. We share first Leicas, except mine came with a Summitar, and I got it 5 years after yours, for $145, with a case, at Olden. You got a great deal. After the EMP wipes out all the bits, I hope we can still get film and paper. :-) 4/3 is easy, it means half frame 35, cropped to 8x10 proportions. -- Charlie Falke _____ /\ | __/\__/------/__) |(____\/_________/ "One test result is worth | |/ `o one thousand expert opinions" - Wernher Von Braun 0 N4003M "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ __________________________________________________________________ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/