Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/06

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Subject: [Leica] More than most 50/2's
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 23:29:07 -0800
References: <CABmfTOV7EieOpxO9bsHgZPd2ptOm=4sCd_DbbK81vf6f5neZww@mail.gmail.com> <CB047E46.914A%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

Leica sold off the content of their museum in their "dark days," sort of
like us selling Leica and lens to pay mortgage.


On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Chris Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> I wonder how they got hold of them. Did Leica close their museum and sell
> everything to these guys? Who on Earth would pay 36,000 for that lens?
> Some of these items they relist for YEARS and they never sell. No retailer
> makes money offering things at prices so high they never sell. I wonder
> what their REAL business is?
>
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> On 12/7/11 1:51 AM, "Marty Deveney" <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >These guys have slowly been selling off items from the old Leitz
> >museum for years.
> >
> >One thing you can be sure of is that this one was very carefully
> >assembled and kept.  It's probably the cleanest DR you'll ever see.
> >
> >Of course, that doesn't mean I want it.
> >
> >Marty
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> >gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> Oligarchs of the world, queue up! (-:
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Henning Wulff
> >><henningw at archiphoto.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> http://tinyurl.com/7t5m8ds
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> >>> Henning Wulff
> >>> henningw at archiphoto.com
> >>>
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