Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/11

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Subject: [Leica] The Crane Estate
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sun Feb 11 18:01:16 2007
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Alastair:

Even here the F-Distagon 30mm is expensive. One has to wait a year after 
ordering one from Zeiss and it costs over $6,000. After several months 
of looking, I finally found one in pretty good condition on ebay for 
less than half the price of a new one.

Jim




Alastair Firkin wrote:

>>A couple of Rollei photos... very cold and windy, I didn't stay long.
>>
>><http://www.hemenway.com/CraneEstate-01312007/>
> 
> 
> Jim,
> the 30mm is the reason I have not left the blad for a 6000 series Rollei.
> I never found one at anything like the price I would pay for such a thing,
> but here in Australia 'blad lenses come up quite often and many years ago
> I picked up the 30mm and "love" it.
> 
> Your second image uses it well IMHO
> 
> Cheers
> Alastair
> 
> 
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