Cush
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- paul cushing
Hello all, happy to stumble upon this forum. Got my started in photography thank to my 9th grade English teacher. At the start of the school year, she approched me and asked if I had any interest in taking pictures of the schools 1st home football game. My reply..... What? I have never taken a picture with a SLR before... after a total of about 2o minutes of "How to", 2 rolls of BW flim and a Canon AE-1 off I went.. Only to return the camera back to her after 4 quick years of high school ... Thank you Mrs Z... After have a few career changes - US Navy (10 years electronic tech), Robotics Tech (intall program) and the worst career chose for anyone to deside on Quality Engineer in the automotive industry ... I am now the Camera and photo equipment consultant for the largest priviatly owned consumer electronics and applinance store... ABT Electronics in Glenveiw IL. ( Why Shop Abt Electronics | Abt ). We became an authorized affilated Leica Dealer back in March of 2014. Be the only "sales person" who really ever hear of and understood what Leica stood for ... I very quickly became the Leica specialist.. We do sell the full range of leica cameras but deplay on the floor for the customer to freely pick up, hold and try the leica c , Dlux, Vlux, T, SL, AX, M and soon to be instock the Q......
So after be a little long winded, my point i am finally arriving upon, after on the average of selling 2 to 3 Dluxs a month I finally desided instead of telling others the value, I wanted to experiance the same. I purchased it 3 weeks ago and have had the camera with me pretty much 24/7.. One of the best investment I made...
Side note .. I do bring it to work each day... and where i tell the customer i purchased and then hand to them my leica, explain and show some of the benifits they are more like and have walked out with the Dlux over the rx100 or the G5X
So after be a little long winded, my point i am finally arriving upon, after on the average of selling 2 to 3 Dluxs a month I finally desided instead of telling others the value, I wanted to experiance the same. I purchased it 3 weeks ago and have had the camera with me pretty much 24/7.. One of the best investment I made...
Side note .. I do bring it to work each day... and where i tell the customer i purchased and then hand to them my leica, explain and show some of the benifits they are more like and have walked out with the Dlux over the rx100 or the G5X