Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yea but KEH of course doesn't have a bellow for the Leica R. The few I can find on e*** command more bucks than I want to spend. Oh well, I hate to but I guess I'll send this beauty back. Jim Laird On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> I know it's early for FFS but KEH just shipped me the 100 f4 >> Macro-Elmar I ordered (if you remember the thread OT: Opinions on >> Leica R 100 F4 Macro Elmar 3-Cam) and it turned out to be the BELLOWS >> version. Their bad. I don't even have a bellows. They're sending me a >> FEDEX return label their cost. The lens comes with the 1:1 adapter and >> is in my opinion in MINT condition even though they rated it UG. If >> anybody wants it my cost was only $334.29 with shipping! Let me know >> quickly or I'll returrn it tomorrow. >> >> Jim Laiird > > > Hasselblad made a bellows lens, the MAKRO-PLANAR CF F/5.6 135MM > Focuses from one inch to infinity. Which is a long distance away. > All you need a a bellows. Maybe get one from a retired chimney sweep or > organ grinder. > And they stopped making that gorgeous lens a long time ago. And they at the > time I was looking were hard to find. Which was frustrating as all the > other > 3 thousand dollar Hassy Zeiss glass was going for 5o bucks. > Much more useful than the regular boring 120 macro which I ended up > getting. > > Get a bellows. I bet they are babe magnets. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >