Mr. Ronaldson

Welcome to the group It seems you've caught the Leciaitis bug like the rest of us. I'm sure you'll enjoy us

>From: R Ronaldson <rronaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [LRFlex] Introduction from the UK >Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:53:07 +0100 > >Unlike Aram I can receive mail from this list but not send. Well I can't >send it from my usual ISP so have to use another ISP for that. David >Young has said he's got someone looking into it so fingers crossed. > >Anyway I'm Reg Ronaldson from Norwich in the UK. I've been retired now >for 9 years and have been building up my Leica collection for some 15 >years. > >I found a secondhand copy of Theo Kisselbach's book The Leicaflex Book >and this inspired me to buy a Leicaflex SL. It came with the 35mm >Elmarit-R lens as this was the only lens the dealer had which fitted. >This served me well for m any years and I have gradually built up a >collection to include the 50mm, 135mm & 180mm lenses. I've also added >sets of Elpro close-up lenses, extension tubes and filters. Then I was >able to acquire the 100mm Macro-Elmar and bellows unit. I was very >interested in close-up work in those days. > >Then when I took early retirement and had a little money from my >severance payout I bought an R4 with the Vario-Elmar-R 28mm-70mm. My >35mm, 50mm and 135mm lenses were only two cam so I had them converted to >three cam by Leica UK. Since then I've acquired a Vario-Elmar-R 75-200, >the Minolta design I think. > >I've also built up a small M series collection with an M3 and a M39 >collection with a IIIa. > >Although Leica equipment is a bit pricey I've always found it very >pleasant to use. I also collect Canon equipment from M39 screw mount >rangefinders to FD bayonet mount SLRs. > >I also dabble a bit in medium format w ith Rollei (CordV,Flex3.5,SLX) and >Mamiya 645 equipment. > >-- >Reg Ronaldson >Norwich UK >------ >Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: >http://www.horizon.bc.ca/~dnr/lrflex.htm >