Who remembers RFF when it started ?

I had been using a Leica rangefinder for about ten years before joining in 2008. A couple years later went back to SLR's for the better part of a decade, disappeared from the forum, then back to 35mm rangefinders and here I am. It's fun to read some of the accumulated knowledge/experience of others. Photography really is a personal journey.
 
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steveyork said:
I remember a cat named Jay on photo.net who was, well, ... interesting.
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Ahhh, LeicaJay, indeed. I really wondered if he had a Leica sometimes. There was a guy, Martin Howard, who wrote a bot around that time called “Leica Bob” that bombed IRC channels and lists with outrageous trolls about Leicas. I wondered if Jay was more like Bob than the rest of us.
 
I think I've mentioned it before. RFF is my only Internet/social media/etc. activity. I do have a login at Leica Forum, and even posted there a few times. But RFF is most comfortable. Reminds me that I ought to visit the LF and see if it's still there.....has been over a year.

But yeah, I lurked around RFF for a few years, then joined in 2003 (I think. Could have been as late as 2006). My only frequent online indulgence.

BTW, did you know that during the peak of Leica's film camera production....they used only the best brass gears hand- forged and crafted by a secretive Jesuit enclave in an undisclosed location in the Pyrenees. Smoothest and most precise gears available to humankind. Leica all the way 😁.

Posts like the above would Garner quite different responses at other forums... Maybe that's what makes RFF special?
 
Hmm. A quick check of my profile says I joined in 2012. Not sure that's right unless my lurker years were longer than I thought. I know I was buying stuff from RFF as early as 2004. Would always have it shipped to my university address...
Regardless, I've stuck around for a while.

Wish we had more women participants...Helen is awesome, and I haven't heard from ornate wrasse for a while. Remember a few others who seem to have come and gone. Love the young energy here....could use maybe a little more. Of course I relate to the "older" group too.
 
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