[...] > > > > That's a 75-year-old lens on a 4-ish-year-old digital body. Very > > tempting. I know of 3 others of this type that are available at the > > moment, so I'm going to have a look at them during the week. > > In 1969, ogling the stuff at Olden Camera in Manhattan for the thousandth > time, the salesman finally got tired of me visiting there and not buying > anything. > > SM: "You gonna buy sometin or what?" > ME: "I don't have much money." > SM: "How much you got?" > ME: "A hundred dollars." > > He pulled out of a drawer a Leica IIc and a Leica IIf, one fitted with an Elmar > 3.5cm and the other an Elmar 5.0cm. "You get 'em both for $99 and have a > buck for a pretzel left over. Nobody wants this old junk anymore." >
Good story! I may buy one of the pre-war bodies some day, to share the experience that people like HCB had. Chatting to the chap in the Leica dispensary he said that was one of the main reasons non-collectors buy this stuff. Or because, like James Ravilious, they favour the particular look that the lenses had in those days. > I bought them. The Elmar 3.5cm was that lens. A great lens. Loved those > cameras. Used them until 1985, when the IIc was lost (the IIf had been lost in > 1978) but that's another story... > > I see you're in the shopping courtyard across the way from the British > Museum in that photo. I bought my Rollei 35S Classic Platinum at the Leica > store there in 1996. that's right - Pied Bull Yard. Bloomsbury Square is through the yard behind where I was standing; the museum is about 100 yards away. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
