Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: George Hartzell <hartzell@corp.webtv.net> >Now I need a lens. I've thought about just holding my nikon lenses in >front of the body, but that seems pretty clumsy. > >At the moment, I'm a bit financially constrained, so I'm looking at: > If you're *that* financially constrained, stop on by and I'll give you a 75mm enlarging lens that I got with my enlarger-mount it into a body cap and hope that it's fixed focus is at some handy distance :-) > 1) 35mm/2.0. I think that i want the release just before the current > ASPH. It sounds reasonably good and seems to be available for > around 800. How hard is it to find replacement hoods for this > lens if I buy one that's "w/out hood" (note: I'm not planning > ahead for when I join the "dropped my M6 on the floor club). > I think mine may be a bit older than that, but it's a lovely piece of glass; think mine (black, Canadian, s/n 248xxxx) is from the M4-P/M4-2 era--feel free to chime in with more accurate info on this lens!-- and does flare more easily than new glass, but it's a fairly tame sort of flare--localized loss of contrast, but no sharp-edged blotches of light on the image. The lens hood and cap are real expensive if you go out and buy a new set from your Leica dealer. I paid around $105 for the set. The current parts are a perfect fit, mechanically and cosmetically. You could probably pick up used parts at a swap meet for $15, but I was in no mood to wait for the next one, and possibly, come away empty handed! Jeff Segawa See my photography online at http://www.netone.com/~segawa