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Subject: [Leica] Still a film user
From: leowesson at gmail.com (Leo Wesson)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:33:03 -0600
References: <COL119-W33E34B8FABC26E080D893D82640@phx.gbl> <2CFFEA14-E9E1-48B5-8CC0-0E9E4FF53DAA@btinternet.com> <7ac27f4f1001200003t252f272cw62f8c77512c3e434@mail.gmail.com> <4B56F6E1.60700@gmx.de> <4B571104.9030107@summaventures.com> <7ac27f4f1001201211rc37489bkbbf3bfddf9576ffc@mail.gmail.com>

Video guys are buying them and saying how cheap they are. Last video  
lens I bought (10 yrs ago) I paid 26k.  Since stolen.

Leo Wesson
photographer?videographer
leo at leowesson.com
817?733?9157

On Jan 20, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> ARE WE DRIVELING to Indian food again?!! :-) Watch it, some people may
> unsub... :-)
>
> Peter, Leica's new lenscap is more expensive than a used M3 (ok, I
> exaggerated, but still), so I don't think they have shallow pocketers
> in mind.
>
> For the life of me, I can't see why ANYONE would buy a Nocti 0.95 when
> a 1.0 can be have for *merely* $5000 and a Nokton for $1100, but sell
> they do, so I guess Leica doesn't need a lot of deep pocketers, just
> enough to buy the stuff from Solms.
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Peter Dzwig  
> <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
>> Richard,
>>
>> I am still using film only too in either my LTMs or my M3. I can't  
>> stretch to an
>>  Mx (x>=8). Not all Leica users have pockets that deep, which Leica  
>> ought to
>> bear in mind.
>>
>> Peter Dzwig
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 20.01.2010 09:03, Richard Man wrote:
>>>> May be he has an extreme allergic reaction to all these digital  
>>>> talk.
>>>>
>>>> At least before the M9, he can talk about the LTM (Lincoln Town's
>>>> Mobile), but now, no one uses their M-less-than-8 anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Well, except Lluis
>>>>
>>>> OK Jim too,
>>>>
>>>> May be George
>>>>
>>>> I bet Mark does too if he has a roll of Tri-X in his drawer.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Frank Dernie
>>>> <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> He is still posting on the rollei-list, where he posted that he  
>>>>> left
>>>>> the LUG because it was full of drivel. He has not mentioned his
>>>>> health problems there...
>>>>> Frank
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>> --
>>
>> ===========================================================
>> Dr Peter Dzwig
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
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