Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:02 AM 9/17/97 -0400, Marvin Moss wrote: > As Mark wrote "It is the f1.2 that is rare" and sells for about $5,500. > You guys are talking about the more common f:1.0 which is available > from most dealers for about $2200 on the average. Dont mix peaches > and pears. I agree that it makes more sense that way, but that is not apparently what Marc's message said. Here is Marc's message: >X-Sender: msmall@roanoke.infi.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) >Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:12:54 -0400 >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> >Subject: Re: Noctilux 50/1 versus 50/1,2 >Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > >At 11:59 AM 9/16/97 -0500, Eric Welch, an argumentative cuss, but a man of >great worth and merit, wrote: >>At 10:25 AM 9/13/97 -0400, you wrote: >> >>>Peter Dechert, no mean critic, has used both versions professionally and >> >>Well, if he says so, I'll have to accept it. I respect his opinion. Never >>heard of Fletcher. >> >>>The number of f/1.2 lenses sold was minuscule, perhaps less than 500; I >>>doubt if many more than this of the f/1 have been sold. I find it >>>surprising that you apparently know a number of professionals who have used >>>both: the above two are the only pros of my acquaintance who have used >>>EITHER, much less both, of these lenses. >> >>There are a bunch of the 1.0 lenses out. I personally know of at least 20 >>people who use them, and looking in shutterbug, there's got to be at least >>15 or 20 for sale somewhere most of the time. > >You might want to look again. There are generally none of these lenses for >sale and, if one appears, it will be the only one in an issue. These >lenses are RARE. (Talk to Jim Kuehl, or Chatterton, or Arnie Duren, or the >Tillises, or Tamarkin: they may see one a year, but no more than that.) I >would appreciate your referring me to an issue of the 'Bug in the last 2 >years where '15 or 20' Noctiluxes are listed. > >Marc > > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! Clearly he is responding to Eric's claim about 15 or 20 1.0 lenses.