Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Wow, life is easy sometimes. Half a day after you express your hardware >dreams, the thing more or less exists and is available online.... But >I'll have to see one some day and fondle it a bit before I decide what's >really right for me. At a few hundred bucks I might make a wide gesture >like "well, yeah... gimme one of those", and then check out what it >really is that I bought. With $2,000 I have to excercise some more >restraint. I know what you mean. Actually, if you were willing to drop to a 6x4.5 format, the Fuji 645W is available for a lot less money and has a similarly excellent lens. 45mm lens. It's not a folder but it's only barely thicker than the standare 645 folder is when folded up. Last one I saw at a swap meet was asking price around $550/650 in mint shape. I've often though that would be a great "poor man's" SuperWide... Godfrey