Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, Apr 20, 1997 6:01 PM, Marc James Small wrote: >At 12:40 PM 4/20/97 -0700, Jeff Segawa wrote: Had hoped to achieve these ends with >>some judicious buying and selling of systems (hanging onto just a choice >>bit here and there) but obviously, someone else is beating me to these >>things! And for those of you who ARE good at this sort of thing, does it >>take you weeks, or even months, to recover your investment, and do you need >>to really work your butt off in order to do it? > > >It actually DOES take years to do this. I have a couple of lenses for sale >I've been hawking for more than a year now. > >A sound user IIIc w/Summitar, though, can easily be had for under $400. Two YEARS!!? Ouch, clearly I don't have what it takes to get into that business for a profit-here I get bored and restless after two DAYS. And what with spring greenery ((or summer thundershowers, autumn leaves, winter snows, etc!) finally making it's appearance, I doubt that I want to give up too many weekends outdoors with the cameras. Depending on how I make out lightening the cost of my Leica inventory, I may want to look into that IIIc. Even better would be a broken M, but I don't see those around. Maybe worth learning to fix rangefinders and such if the price is right. I mean, if someone were to offer me an M2 with totally de-silvered mirror cheap, who would I be to argue? I did once have a IIIc which had been given to me by a collector. It had almost no rangefinder image to speak of, no slow speeds and, worst of all, someone had attempted to remove the viewfinder windows with a common set of pliers, mashing the rings, stripping out the holes and leaving concentric streaks in the chrome. What a mess! But today, perhaps I could've resilvered, rethreaded and de-gummed the thing. Too bad the concept of "eye relief" was unknown back then!