Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/12

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Subject: [Leica] Christmas comes early
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:21:43 +0530
References: <548BCBF2.1030001@jayburleson.com>

Looks like Christmas arrived a couple of weeks early! Enjoy!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com>
wrote:
>
> I was showing some prints to folks that come into where I work the other
> day, and discussing cameras with some of them.
> One gentleman tells me his dad had a Leica and unfortunately they sold all
> of his cameras and lenses when he died years ago.
> BUT...
> He continues to say a few weeks ago he was getting ready to move, and
> looked in a box that had negs and prints that his dad took, and he found a
> smaller box that had, as he said "some old Canon lens."
> So I said bring it in & I'll look at it.
>
> He did so, today, and GAVE me a pristine Canon 50mm f/1.2 LTM lens,
> complete with the leather lens case & both original caps.
> It also had the original hood and a yellow filter, with the leather case
> that holds both of those.
>
> I can't wait to get a proper LTM adapter & go out and play with it on the
> Monochrom...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mfa6mz9
>
>
> Jay
>
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