Re: Leica 50/2.0 Summicron-m

[alan@iti2000.com (Alan Newman)]

You will just have to come to the east coast where the garage sales for the
most part have some pretty decent stuff. The nicest part of buying the lens
is that it included the lens shade, cap, and a heliopan filter. 

Alan


At 10:27 PM 7/10/97 -0700, you wrote:
>   Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:01:33 -0400
>   From: alan@iti2000.com (Alan Newman)
>
>   ...I have a question, I just purchased 50/2.0 Summicron-m 309xxxx
>   at a garage sale for $200.00. The lens is in mint- condition and
>   for $200 I felt that I couldn't go wrong with it.
>
>I have a question, too.  Where are all these garage sales and flea
>markets where people keep finding great bargains on Leicas?  Flea
>markets here in Northern California are of two types:
>
>a) Recent immigrants from developing countries sell fresh produce and
>   new clothes, pots and pans, tools, automobile tires, etc. to each
>   other.  Examples: San Jose Flea Market, Big Red Barn flea market.
>   I like these markets, but I would not call them flea markets and
>   they are not good places to find cameras.
>b) Impoverished Caucasian people sell old broken household things to
>   each other, while recent immigrants from developing countries also
>   hold a type (a) flea market on the same grounds.  Example: Capitol
>   Flea Market.  The only cameras one sees at these are broken point
>   'n' shoots or 8mm movie cameras.
>
>Garage sales and antique stores here mostly seem to sell furniture.
>However, one also finds: plastic placemats with schematic illustrated
>maps of states on them; ceramic salt and pepper shakers in the shapes
>of little boys and girls; table lamps in the shape of a lamppost with
>a drunken man holding on to it; glass tumblers with "Souvenir of Las
>Vegas" and a pair of tumbling dice painted on them; decorative model
>automobiles which are actually bottles which one can fill with
>spirits; used jigsaw puzzles from which a few pieces may be missing;
>black velvet paintings of sad clowns or Elvis Presley; 1960's record
>players built into hard carrying cases covered in grey vinyl; old
>books; photographs of chimpanzees wearing clothes sitting behind
>desks; paintings of dogs playing poker and smoking cigars; and, oh
>yes, the occasional old Kodak Brownie camera.
>
>But I never ever see any cameras that I might be remotely interested
>in buying at them, much less Leicas.  What's your secret?  Where are
>these great garage sales and flea markets?
>
>-Patrick
>