Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/14

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Subject: Re: Help: Polarizer for E39
From: wilcox@umcc.umich.edu (Ken Wilcox)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:28:33 -0400

Woodmere is one of the most expensive places to buy. Keep watching the ads
and go to swap meets. You should be able to get one for about half of what
Woodmere asks.

kw


>Excerpts from mail: 14-Apr-97 Leica-Users List Digest V1 .. by
>Listmgr@mejac.palo-alto.
>>  Polarizer must be the 13352 with hood, for
>> >E39.
>
>    After fifty-plus years in the hobby, I'm just now wading into Loch
>Leica, so I am "iggerant" of many finer points (not to mention a
>'monster' out in the deep!)
>
>    I need a *user-friendly* polarizer for my IIIf rd/st mit 50
>Summicron. Is the 13352 what I need? If so, what can I expect to pay (IF
>one can be located)? Is this one of the "swingaway"s?
>    Talked on the phone with one of the Tillis's at Woodmere Camera
>about this. He said a used swingaway he had just sold (for $199) was for
>M Summicrons and pinch-clamped around the lens (similar to the barndoor
>shades) but should work with a TM 'Cron. When I expressed wonder at the
>price, he laughed and said they were $450 new. For one (veddy fancy)
>filter.
>    Polarizers with SLRs are easy to manage, but with RF cameras much
>less so, or so I'm finding.
>Tried an old Kodak pola with the little secondary pola on the end of the
>plastic handle. Pretty clumsy. The swingaway-cum-shade sounds like a
>better idea.
>
>    Comment? Advice?
>
>TIA
>Stan Yoder
>Pittsburgh

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