Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some Hasselblad stuff was recently sold.... but because one of the current Hassy team was on the list, we got told the story..... Sometimes, Hasselblad would give or sell to employees, stuff that was prototype, show stock, or otherwise not saleable. In fact, when the family sold out, a lot of this stuff was released to the employees. The rarest item I have ever come across is a dummy 105 UV Sonnar. It turns out t he guy on the list knew this lens, and told the entire story to all of us. FYI, there were only 100 lenses made, and maybe 2 or 3 dummys for shows. BTW, it did not sell on EBay , and never appeared for sale again. BTW, the employee in question got a bunch of stuff, but it was all useful equipment. I suspect that a lot of this Leica stuff is liberated, or just plain considered engineering junk and surplused out. It always amuses me that while you hear the stories, the Leica stories are never in the first person... it is always.. "I heard" or "I knew a guy who..." or even " the seller is..." Never the word "I". PS>> I thought Helmut Mueller was in Canada...? Was this the same guy? Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net Frank, no mention of where it came from, only that it was a one-off built by Willi Franke and the lens was a specially constructed Summicron 2/35 from Helmut M?ller. Knowing German factories , it probably stood around on a shelf for years before someone asked