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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Rollei 40/2.8 Sonnar [was Stephen Gandy took down
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sat Sep 4 06:33:25 2004

I have a spare set of plates for the Leicaflex Standard (top, bottom and
front) that I want to re-finish in Olive Hammertone (as suggested by a
well-known list member).

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



on 3/20/04 1:24 AM, Joseph Yao at joseph@yao.com wrote:

> It is my favourite colour too - so much so that we got Leica to make us 
> some
> olive green M6 TTL.
> 
> http://www.cameraquest.com/LM6G.htm
> 
> Joseph
> 
> 
> on 3/20/04 5:06 PM, frank.dernie@btinternet.com at
> frank.dernie@btinternet.com wrote:
> 
>> Olive ismy favourite colour for cameras.
>> Frank
>> 
>>> from:    Chris Chen <furcafe@yahoo.com>
>>> date:    Sat, 20 Mar 2004 04:21:15
>>> to:      lug@leica-users.org
>>> subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: Rollei 40/2.8 Sonnar [was Stephen Gandy took
>>> down
>>> 
>>> The seller (in HK) is also selling a couple bodies on
>>> the auction site, but they apparently aren't as
>>> popular @ around $800.  I do like the fact that the
>>> Rollei bodies are silver/chrome, the way God intended
>>> RFs to be, rather than the Bessa R2, which is only
>>> available in black & colors like, egads, olive!    ;-)
>>> I still don't know why Cosina never offered the R2-C
>>> in chrome since the vast majority of Contax RF lenses
>>> (& a good percentage of Nikon RF glass) are chrome.
> 
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