Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] That expensive Nikon hood
From: Ed Buziak <ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:45:20 +0000

Mike,

I've not been following this thread at all (I've only known $5,000 as
Monopoly money for the past year of so <s>) but does anyone know how common
or valuable the hood for the 2.1cm f/4 Nikkor SLR lens is compared to the
2.1 RF hood? I'm having my lens recoated by Malcolm Taylor over here in the
UK (I'm, and it's, basically a "user" not a "collector") but I've had a
well-known dealer offering me £100 sight-unseen for the scratched hood...
and he simply wasn't interested in the lens, finder, caps or case at all.
I turned the offer down but this thread has aroused my ($$$-sign)
curiousity!

Ed Buziak / Publisher
Camera & Darkroom magazine

ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk
http://www.camera-and-darkroom.co.uk

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>From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] That expensive Nikon hood
>Date: Fri, Mar 17, 2000, 5:20 pm
>

>Curious--as of Friday afternoon, the $5500 bid for that Nikon lens hood
>had gone DOWN. How does that happen in an eBay auction??? A withdrawn
>bid? But the same person is still the high bidder.
>
>He's also added a comment to the effect that "a leading Nikon expert"
>has only seen 3 or 4 of these hoods in his lifetime, and believes that
>only 10 such hoods exist.
>
>--Mike
>