How Many of Us Started Our Leice Experiance on a CL?

How Many of Us Started Our Leice Experiance on a CL?

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I wonder if he could narrow it even further as to say, first lens Jupiter-8?? This was my first Leica and first combo.. I loved the results from it, and still do!
I love CL's I have one now still.


Leica CL, Jupiter-8 by lamlux.net, on Flickr
 
Yes, my first Leica was a Leitz Minolta CL that I bought new in 1978 at Camera Barn. (Who knew that I would be working there 6 months later!). I owned that CL for a really short time. It just wasn't robust enough for me. I traded it in at Ken Hansen's old shop on 34th Street for a well used Leica DS M3 with a Canon 50/1.8 Serenar. To me, that M3 really was my first Leica.
 
Of course this is a skewed poll -- well they're all skewed but this one particularly so -- because really mainly CL owners/users will be drawn to it. I got my first Leica, a CL of course, from the counterman at the old Mill Luncheonette on upper Broadway, in 1982. Iw as so young and naive I didn't realize it was hot. But it had to have been. With 40mm f/2 Summicron. Since lost in a divorce. But I have my own replacement now. It's a great camera on which to mount the VC 21/4 (with viewfinder of course). That set looks fabulous together.
 
Hah!
I would say it was skewed only if the originator had also started on a CL!


sparrow6224 said:
Of course this is a skewed poll -- well they're all skewed but this one particularly so -- because really mainly CL owners/users will be drawn to it. I got my first Leica, a CL of course, from the counterman at the old Mill Luncheonette on upper Broadway, in 1982. Iw as so young and naive I didn't realize it was hot. But it had to have been. With 40mm f/2 Summicron. Since lost in a divorce. But I have my own replacement now. It's a great camera on which to mount the VC 21/4 (with viewfinder of course). That set looks fabulous together.
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BTW - my rangefinder was a CLE!
 
My first Leica was an SLR. No! I tell a lie - it was a minilux. The lens was amazing, and thats what got me into Leicas. I then went down the SLR route, first with a Leicaflex. That camera felt amazing to use, but when the meter packed in I sold it for an R series SLR. Again, the lens quality kept me hooked. I used that along with a battered IIIC, realised I preferred using rangefinders and then began saving for an M2. I never used the SLR once I had an M2 but I still kept it for a fair old while because the Summicron-r 50 on it had seen better days but produced amazing images, and I eventually sold it a couple of years back. So I'm afraid I don't fit any of the voting options - as my first Leica experience wasn't CL, wasn't M, and wasn't a non-Leica non-CL.
 
I started with an M3 + 50mm Summicron; and whatever else comes and goes, I think I'll be finishing with it.

Never tried a CL but every time one comes up for sale, a little part of me itches to reach for my wallet.
 
Almost, but then i changed for a M6 at the last moment. the longer EBL won out. but i might get one when i've settled into my lenses and have an M8. maybe this time next year. love the size and the AE.
 
as stated by someone above the Cl was not my first Leica but so far it has been my last ........I only wish I had given in to temptation a little sooner
 
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