Leica as a chick magnet

[anand_n._vishwamitran]

<p>Move over Ferraris and Arnold abs.<br>

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[JDMvW]

<p>"Gosh, you really like cameras"</p>

<p>Heh. heh...</p>

[dhbebb]

<p>Ain't never going to happen! 4x5, on the other hand, is something else - put it on a tripod, and women approach you, almost always responding positively to an offer to look through the focusing hood. Cameras you can hang around your neck are strictly for poseurs (although sometimes useful for taking pictures!).</p>

[starvy]

Someone had posted a link to this before! To be honest, a guy of that age does not normally shoot an M7, he's much more likely to shoot with a Canon or Nikon!

[rgerraty]

I have definitely not found any young woman who likes cameras that much. But almost the only comments I get on my

Leicas are from young women, usually interested in film. Perhaps this young woman is different and thought an M7 might

be digital....?

[eric friedemann]

I had an M6 for years and it never got me blown. Maybe I'll take my friend's M7 out for a spin and see how that works

out.

[harley_davis_brown]

<p>Happens all the time.</p>

[philip_wilson]

<p>I find it is one of the problems of Leica ownership. It is hard to get good shots while being continually propositioned by attractive young women. Cannon and Nikon users don't have the same difficulty</p>

[richard_john_edwards]

<p>I often have people come up to meand tell me what an :old school camera" it is, must admit mostly women.</p>

[Rick_van_Nooij]

<p>I've had more game with my Epson R-D1 to be honest.... ;)</p>

 

[ridinhome]

<p>Why do you think I paid extra for my D-Lux 4 when I could've bought an LX3? ;-)</p>

[john_layton]

<p>Nice to see that real emulsions can still come into play...in this otherwise crass, virtual world of digital manipulation!</p>

[john_robison3]

<p>Being a fat, baggy eyed, jowl faced old fart does, dare I say, solve any problems along those lines when I've got the Leica slung over my shoulder.</p>

<p>However my darling bride has asked "is that a lens in your pocket or are you just happy to see me" .</p>

[Alex_Es]

<p>Story of my life.</p>

<p>(Just kidding.)</p>

[paul_neuthaler]

<p>Every girl wants to single, or double, stroke my M3</p>

[steve_levine]

<p>Everyone loves a story with a "happy ending".</p>

[john_lovelace]

<p>As an M6 owner and shooter in, shall we say, broad daylight, I've not had similar encounters. Probably just as well for an 80-year-old who can't always achieve focus.</p>

[User_2019667]

<p>John Robison, Good one. :-)))</p>

[mickey_anderson]

<p>When my camera is hanging around my neck, it is resting comfortably on top of my pot belly, so this is not a problem. At sixty years old, gravity has won!</p>

[christoph_hammann]

<p>Two words: You wish!<br>

Sad, really. If this goes on, I'll have to sic the feminist police on y'all.</p>

[peter_maxwell1]

<p>Funny enough, without exception, whenever I get admiring comments about my camera (Leica M8 or occasionally a Nikon D200 with a BIG lens) its from young women. Have not yet been offered the bonk around the back of the building though. Damn I will have to try harder. I think there is something in this video.</p>

[Robin Smith]

<p>I am frequently assailed by young women about my Leica, but that's because I am just so good looking. I'd be perfect if I wasn't so modest.</p>

[astral]

<p>Leica IIIf RD . . . I am saying nothing more. Nothing!. . . . . OK one word - Yabbadabbadooooo!</p>

[anand_n._vishwamitran]

<p>Paul Neuthaler, good one :)<br>

Peter Maxwell, I think the problem is you are still shooting digital ;)</p>

 

[baisao]

<p>Sometimes women notice my IIIc but more often it is male photographers that notice. Here is the strangest interaction I’ve had by far:</p>

<p>I was photographing downtown on the last day of SXSW and this smartly dressed fellow walks up to me and says in a demanding voice, “Let me see that!” I look at him trying to assess whether I am about to be mugged and he says again firmly, “Let me see the camera!” I intuited that I wasn’t going to get mugged but had NO intention of letting him paw over my camera, so I just hold up the IIIc and tell him it’s an old Leica from 1948 and make a comment about how good the lens condition is. He cooed over it like he was seeing a WWII era airplane. He then told me that he had “a lot of respect for those cameras” and said that he switched to shooting digital 10 years ago. </p>

<p>(Everyone says they switched to shooting digital 10 years ago. And however fond they are of their digital cameras there is always a brief hint of sadness in their voices, a tone that is more than just nostalgia. I think that they truly miss shooting film but are too afraid to admit it.)</p>

<p>So the well dressed fellow left, saying that he was a professional photographer and had to get ready for the night ahead. “Ta!”</p>