RE: [Leica] WTB - I know, it is not a Friday..

["Wang, Albert" <Albert.Wang@ibx.com>]

Actually there are wonderful Leica alternatives for less than 250 dollars.

Try the following:
A Leica copy Bessa-T used :) I think that this one is the best :)

- -----Original Message-----
From: Walter S Delesandri [mailto:walt@jove.acs.unt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:21 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Cc: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB - I know, it is not a Friday..


Well, I'll respond, not on Friday!!
In US dollars, we used to buy nice M2/M3 for $2-300, clean users, 
I had MANY...this was from 1975-80 or so....
In the 80s, my wife bought a "beater" user for $275 (1987 or so...)
Now the same camera sells for $700 or so...
I sold a "parts" camera for $200 (truly a junker, incomplete RF) coupla 
years back....Now if I still had it, I'd buy an RF and install it and have 
a $900 camera (RF costs $550 or so...)

I guess the moral is that if a cheap bastard like ME  will put out $5-700 
for another body I don't need, it ain't likely that there are ANY for 
$300...MAYBE a beater CL with non-working meter, MAYBE...

Sorry to be so frank, but if there are any $300 M-whatever, intact and
working somewhat, 
with good RF, I'll be damned if I've seen them!

Can't we find this guy a beater and one of you "collectors" with two dozen
camera 
sell it to him for what you paid in 1977?....as I recall that this guy is an

avid photographer and has little money...Hell, If I had the one I sold for 
"scrap" I might give it to him and let him find an RF.....

Good luck with your search, 
Walt


0100 "Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy" 
<watteau@krakow.neurosoft.net> wrote:
> ..but I won't be connectable Fri till Sat ;-)
> 
> 
> This is somewhat a hopeless question. But let's begin:
> I am looking for M-abled body. As I have a mere 250$
> or about it, I am looking for _really_ ugly one. With no covering,
> hand painted in multityde of colours, wrapped in gazettes,
> full of dings, dents, even made in Canada ;-)
> but working. Is here anyone with such a thing?
> 
> Best
> --  


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