Hello R lovers,
I am Canadian and have spent most of my adult life in Asia, Kuala
Lumpur, Singapore, Beijing and the last 11 years in Hong Kong - a great
place to be to get good prices on Leica equipment! I am 61 and can
retire in another year with full pension benefits, I presently sell
Canadian potash to fertilizer manufacturers in China and Taiwan, and
the business has been good to me and my family for the past 25 years. I
am married with four children - all grown up and moved away to work or
to attend university - three girls and a boy. No grandchildren yet. I
started taking photos with a Kodak Brownie - back in the days when the
prints came with scalloped edges, and progressed into rangefinders with
an Argus C3 "the brick" in 1955. I took a detour into SLRs first with a
Pentax spotmatic and then with a Nikon Nikkormat, and finally "came
home" to Leica in the early 80's, first with a CL, then a Minolta CLE
and then later with my first M6. I have also dabbled in medium format
and have a Pentax 645 and two Rollei TLRs, a 2.8F and a rare Rolleiwide
in pristine condition - none of these cameras see much use - since I
turned to digital first with a Canon G1, then G5 and now a Canon D60
(where I use my R lenses on the Canon body) and last month a Lumix DC
1. I still have in the dry box a Nikon F2, an F4, the Rolleis, an M4, a
Bessa R2, a Hexar RF, and a bag of Leica M lenses as well as an R8 and
R6 bodies and five R lenses ranging from 28 to 180mm. I shoot pictures
for use in my business (crop management and fertilizer use in China)
and family happy snaps as well as recording the life around me. I am
looking forward to Leica's deeper foray into the digital world as I
really like the ease with which I can manage digital photos. I am
running out of space to store negatives and prints!
Cheers
Howard
(in Hong Kong)
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