Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison McClary wrote: > > This is true...also the older Canon FD stuff is prety cheap now, but I > prefer the old AI non AF Nikon gear. On KEH you can get a 50 1.4 AI in > what they call bargain condition for 50-50 bucks...I got one of these a > few months back and could not figure out why they called it > bargain...looked very clean. For just plinking around and learning on > this would be the route I would go. > > Or look into a Rolleiflex SL35M. Then you get Zeiss glass.....I think MJ > Small has one for sale?? > > On 6/27/99 2:22 PM Mark Rabiner wrote: > > >But could cost more than the camera. A 1.8 50 for a song and > >featherweight, a 1.4 50 classic optics for a few more pennies but not much. > >No better buyers market than non AF Nikon. > > Best regards, > Harrison McClary I wish I was where I once was which was very broke and starting out and had those options available to be. It took me Months then to save up for a used Nikon 105 2.5 in the late seventies. Now you find them in the grab box. (exaggeration) Or to put it plainer: I wish I was starting out now. And I wouldn't have wasted 7 years of my life in a stupid college but right off gotten a job as someone's assistant. Mark Rabiner