I got a new toy today!

[agoglanian]

Well look what stumbled into my lap! Haha i wish, i just borrowed it from school, and im dreaming about owning it or leaving the country and taking it with me never to return!!!!!

its an M7 [.72] of course, w/ a 24mm elemarit f/2.8 and a 75mm summilux f/1.4

 

[FrankS]

You must be going to a really good school.

 

[jdos2]

RUN FOR THE BORDER!

Looks like fun! That 75 and 24 are BOTH dream lenses!

 

[captainslack]

Time to reenroll!!!! Where do you go to school again? 😉

 

[back alley]

yeah, what school is that?

joe

 

[gc1]

Mmmm........ student life never looked this good.

 

[TPPhotog]

The cameras never looked that good when I was at school, in fact thinking about it the school didn't have cameras 🙁

 

[Stephan]

I got to change photography schools...

 

[nikon_sam]

I was just talking about the cameras we had when I started photography in high school...They were Kodak Instamatics with 126 film...they sure didn't look like that!!

 

[T_om]

i just borrowed it from school, and im dreaming about owning it or leaving the country and taking it with me never to return!!!!!

Crap. When I was going to Auburn in the mid 60's and running the student union darkroom there, they gave me an old Burke & James 5x7 view camera. 😡

I hated that camera. What a POS. Had to carry a pair of vise grips to tighten everything because it was so sloppy. It was ugly as a mud fence too.

It was considered a step up to get to use a Speed Graphic.

But they gave YOU a LEICA. That sucks. There must be someplace I can go to complain... :bang:

Tom

 

[Stephan]

You need a T-shirt with

I went to Auburn in the mid 60's and running the student union darkroom there, and all i got was this old Burke & James 5x7 view camera

on it

😀

 

[eric]

You need a T-shirt with

I went to Auburn in the mid 60's and running the student union darkroom there, and all i got was this old Burke & James 5x7 view camera

on it

😀

Bwahh!! Funny. I used to clamp down those Calumets at a studio I worked at. Those green monsters were hell to work with.

But look on the bright side. Auburn, in the 60's. I bet he wasn't shy with the ladies and ladies weren't shy to him at that time. 🙂

Oh and the Leica...probably a fake. Better yet, spray paint an old rangefinder and return it and see if they notice.

 

[solane]

Crap. When I was going to Auburn in the mid 60's and running the student union darkroom there, they gave me an old Burke & James 5x7 view camera. 😡

Tom

hey Tom! my husband went to auburn too! (war da** eagle!) but he went a few years later and i don't think they gave students ANY cameras by that time. 😛

 

[ray_g]

hey Tom! my husband went to auburn too! (war da** eagle!) but he went a few years later and i don't think they gave students ANY cameras by that time. 😛

The POS old Burke & James finally fell apart? 😉

 

[Penguin_101]

No Mr./Mrs.[fill in teacher name here], I didn't check out a camera.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

They let you take those HOME? That's a trusting school. Never in a million years would a school around here even dream of letting someone slip out of the doors with 7500 bucks worth of photography equipment.

 

[Jun Yan]

I will going to check my school lab tomorrow....

 

[parks5920]

😕 What the...??? HUH? What school would have any equipment that looks like THAT? Especially to borrow?

 

[parks5920]

Now I COULD get a camera like that from, let's see, UCLA or USC, Oh yeah, Pepperdine...except I would have to steal it from a professor, maybe a dean/Chancellor.

 

[StuartR]

He goes to Brooks -- it is a photography school in Santa Barbara -- one of the best technical photo schools in the country. In any case, they have cartloads of equipment for students to check out. I don't think many check out the M's....most people are going in and checking out the 1Ds's, Hasselblad kits, Horsemen, F5's and any kind of strobe, underwater housing or lighting device imaginable. Most of the kids I have met from there don't even know what a Leica is -- agphotography is a notable exception.