Street Photography for the Purist

I remember the first time I saw the framelines.
I remember the first thwaap.
So will you.
And if you’re thinking, “You Leica fucking snob,” go ahead.
You just don’t know.
Those that know.
Know.
And they’ll never look back.
Yes, I know that the majority of people who purchase or collect Leica equipment are doctors and dentists and well-to-do engineers. The collective
fondlers. Some of my fondler-friends tell me that the Leicas only come out for birthday parties and trips to make sharp-yet-shitty tourist photos.
I know this.
Buck the trend.
Use the Leica.
Don’t fondle it like you fondle yourself.
Use it like a tool.
A tool that is the only perfect tool for making street photographs.
Seriously, a used M6 from the mid-nineteen-eighties should cost you a grand. Take it to a technician and have it CLA’d – fondler-speak for Clean,
Lube and Adjust. You can buy a Summicron or a ‘cron as the happy-fondlers call them for about eight hundred. All figures in U.S. dollars. You do
the conversion. I make photos.
A ‘cron is a two-oh. You can make wonderful photographs with them.