Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:59 AM 9/16/97 -0500, Eric Welch, an argumentative cuss, but a man of great worth and merit, wrote: >At 10:25 AM 9/13/97 -0400, you wrote: > >>Peter Dechert, no mean critic, has used both versions professionally and > >Well, if he says so, I'll have to accept it. I respect his opinion. Never >heard of Fletcher. > >>The number of f/1.2 lenses sold was minuscule, perhaps less than 500; I >>doubt if many more than this of the f/1 have been sold. I find it >>surprising that you apparently know a number of professionals who have used >>both: the above two are the only pros of my acquaintance who have used >>EITHER, much less both, of these lenses. > >There are a bunch of the 1.0 lenses out. I personally know of at least 20 >people who use them, and looking in shutterbug, there's got to be at least >15 or 20 for sale somewhere most of the time. You might want to look again. There are generally none of these lenses for sale and, if one appears, it will be the only one in an issue. These lenses are RARE. (Talk to Jim Kuehl, or Chatterton, or Arnie Duren, or the Tillises, or Tamarkin: they may see one a year, but no more than that.) I would appreciate your referring me to an issue of the 'Bug in the last 2 years where '15 or 20' Noctiluxes are listed. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!