Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:58 PM 30/01/97 +0000, you wrote: >> We should all be lucky enough to score a 2.8/40 Elmarit! 'Very few were >> made', the books say: only ONE was sold outside of the Leitz plant. You >> could finance an entire M6 set with ALL production lenses if you got one= of >> these babies and passed it on to a collector! > >Marc, > >if it was really just one that has been sold I have seen that lonely=20 >stranger today at Photo Gregor in K=F6ln (Cologne). >Elmarit-C 2.8/40mm #2512906. Hove Photo's "Pocket Book" says of the 40mm Elmarit-C, "The few examples manufactured were never officialy sold to the general public although examples have been discovered." Sounds like more than *one* to me! >For me It was like visiting a museum. I hope you didn't mind me=20 >sharing my impression with you. Stefan, I for one, am glad you did! Thanks. - ----------- David Young | Who is General Victoria, B.C. CANADA | Failure, and why youngs@IslandNet.com | is he reading my disk?