Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Jem's Gems
From: "onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 07:39:23 -0600
References: <01C09E33.0CDFFB20.jem.kime@cwcom.net>

Once found a 75/1.4 for $50 at a pawn shop. Not a bad lens for
that price!

Chris

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jem Kime" <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:56 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Jem's Gems


> Nice deal!
> My IIIf R/D D/A with R/S Elmar at a car-boot sale for 25 GBP was perhaps
my
> finest hour.
> And yes, the not so hot deals are those that become the roundabouts, or
the
> swings, in compensation...
>
> Prototype? What prototype? There are no bargains to be found in Cambridge
> surely? Certainly not at either of the two classic camera shops there.
>
> Jem
>
> NO AARDVARKS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbbeijing [SMTP:apbbeijing@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 23 February 2001 10:46
>
> > Adrian,
> > Then I shan't tell you where I found my s/h 135/2.8 (M) for GBP130
> either!
> > Oh, all right, in the A.P ads section, but I was too late for the black
> paint
> > M4 at GBP200, sigh...
>
> Hey Jem - not bad, not bad. My best Leica bargain was a black M2 for
USD100
> which I picked up in Saigon when the only foreigners in town were the
> Russians (known as 'Americans without dollars'!). This sort of bargain
> compensates in a wholly irrational way for the excess funds doled out on
> non-bargains dontcha reckon?
>
> If I told you the prototype was located in a certain well known university
> town not beginning with an 'O' would that be giving too much away???
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>
>

In reply to: Message from Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net> (RE: [Leica] Jem's Gems)