Many years ago my only sister found a case at a Chicago street sale containing a Leica IIf with some early lenses dating to about 1950 padded in foam and made a gift of it to me. I have always been fascinated with old mechanical stuff and played with it briefly only to trade it on camera for my daughters. At the time I was using a Nikon film camera without much thought about the art of taking pictures. My interests evolved later in knowing more about taking pictures and Leica as a brand, then I discovered E-Bay and older used Leica equipment for sale. It was a time when grandsons discovered their grandfather's closets with Leica cameras and sold them at auction. That kindled my curiosity and I started collecting. I joined the Leica Historical Club and so began the hobby and expanding photography experience.      

Digital began evolving in earnest while I was deep into film development, technics, and simply taking pictures only to discover I was scratching only scratching to the surface. The art of it all was changing rapidly and like so many I began to be pulled in many directions including digital. Then Adobe expanded its capabilities in every direction. But that collection older of older Leica cameras and lenses pulled me back to explore film, as a medium with digital. 

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