On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:59:34PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sep 19, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A nice toybox to be sure. > > Yes, and much of it sourced very inexpensively. The Leica R stuff, for > instance, cost me less than a middle price Pentax lens. They're lenses made > in '65 to '82, top notch quality. Pick one up and you know how well made it > is... And still fully supported by parts and service at Leica USA, to my > astonishment. > > (Part of that acquisition was a pair of Leicaflex SL bodies. The oldest lens > in the batch was designed for the original Leicaflex and needs an update to > support the SL metering indication. Leica still has the parts and will still > do the update. It costs more than the lens is worth nowadays—the lens is > worth about $350 to sell, the update would cost about the same thing—and not > necessary for my intended use, but it is really nice to have the manufacturer > fully back their products even 48 years later.)
That's better than my Mom. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
