Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The E whose Bay we avoid speaking of is selling one for eight grand from bustling Hong Kong. One for two grand from they don't care to say and one for three grand from Japan. http://www.ebay.com/bhp/leica-apo-telyt >From Austria you can get a Leica R 1:5.6/800 mm Apo-Telyt-R ROM and they do fit the S full frame its the rage on the Red List. And for chump change too only $17,160.00 Buy It Now or Best Offer! 24 hours left! An 800mm on an S would be around a 600? We need to go into the money business. Plant money trees. Irrigate. On 9/17/13 11:14 AM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > George Lottermoser wrote: > >> >> On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Doug Herr wrote: >> >>> I recently calculated that if I sold all of my R equipment including both >>> the 280mm f/4 APO and the recent, hard-earned backup 280mm f/4 APO I >>> could >>> afford a well-used S2, an adapter for Contax 645 lenses, a Zeiss 350mm >>> Tele-Apotessar, extension tubes and a 1.4x Mutar. It would do for 99% >>> of my >>> photos. The other 1% would be covered by a Zeiss Contax 645 120mm >>> APO-Makro-Planar. I have to stop calculating such stuff. >> >> I wish you could rent the kit >> and find out if the fantasy >> synchs with reality. >> > > Exactly my thoughts too. > >> As 35DSLR-like as it seems to be >> I'd guess that Medium-Format idiosyncrasies >> still show up; >> resulting in a, >> "wish I had the DMR/280 Apo on this trek." > > Especially where a trek is involved. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/