Love your Leica a little too much?

I have detected some Leica love here that seems a little un-natural if you catch my drift. For those people I have posted this illustration by Ursula Benser from a book by Walther Benser dated 1959.

 

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Hope this works anyway.

 

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Enjoy

Guess I don't have the magic touch. The illustration can be found

here:

 

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http://info.marylhurst.edu/is/leica_love.jpg

One more try?

 

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If only that were an M7 in his lap!

yeah, That old, wrinkly and dry Leica does nothing for me. Replace

that with a young smooth sensual M7! OOOH AHHHH;#

I disagree. There's something quite sensual about a 'screw mount'

Leica. :-)

he should gaze down on a noctilux!!!

Is that a Collapsible Summicron in your pocket, or are you just happy

to see me?

Well, at least, she's about ready to draw a Social Security check (obviously approaching age 60).

You should see the inprint on the oroginal bookcover: it´s a golden

motif on a blue cover. Looks really neat, every LTM-Lover should have

one of Bensers books.

 

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Unfortunately I can´t post the slide I made from this sometime ago.

 

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Best regards

Every time I use the little spring-loaded button on the 50mm f3.5

Elmar's focusing lever, it reminds me of ... err ... something else ;)

 

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The same kind of effect happens when you draw the edge of your finger

along the film advance knob.

 

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Using a Leica screw mount camera is definitely a sensual experience.

 

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Joe

I have to mount mine to screw it. Sometimes there is a little grease

or lubrication on the inside. I have to hide it from my wife. I

don't like knowing that other people screwed and mounted before me.

I have to wear a strap around my neck. Often coated in a supple

leather. The knobs are instinctively in the right places. I hear

that other people have a hard time loading it and stumble around

before finally getting it in properly. I cover up the round, red

dot. I only mount a 90-50-90 combination. Expensive. I often wish

I could send it back to te factory for an update and tightening. I

stay up late at night and chat with others with similar habits in a

Forum.

90-50-90? I'm more of a 35-21-35 man, but to each his own.

Are cameras female? Yes, they are, at least the German ones!

 

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You can tell, just by looking anyway:

 

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Operating instructions for a man: on switch, off switch. That's it.

 

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Operating instructions for a woman: numerous buttons to push, and they

all have to be done in the right sequence BEFORE releasing the

shutter.

German cameras are females? Phew, thank God I've got a Leica!

Friends!

 

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A few fractured literary Leica Love references

 

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"To Solmes she was alway THE Leica..."

 

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--Sir Arthur Canon Red Dial

 

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"The Song of Songs, which is Solomes

 

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"I compare you, my Leica,

to a mare of Paraoh's chariots.

Your every-ready case is comely with ornaments,

your neck strap with strings of jewels.

We will make you an ornament of gold

studden with silver,

a commemorative limited edition.

 

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How do I love thee,

how do I love thee?

Let my Leica dealer count the ways.

 

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"All happy Leicas are alike, each broken down Leica is broken down in

its own way."

 

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--Lev Leicavich Tolstoy

 

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Daisy to Gatsby:

 

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"I've never sen so many beautiful Leicas!"

 

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--F. Scott Fitzbarnack�