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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: So.. what is the deal with Alpa Cameras?
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat Mar 19 17:17:57 2005

G'day Simon,
Your Macro Switar does indeed have some monetary value and is a d---
fine lens as well.  As a macro lens it could be adapted to your Leica
reflex camera pretty easily, you would not retain infinity focus
however.

How go discussions with your spouse?  From yesterday it seemed pretty
dire.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of animal
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 6:19 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: So.. what is the deal with Alpa Cameras?

I still have an Alpa macro switar lens.
Is that any good? have no body for it .
My mother gave the camera to a distant cousin i believe. 
simon jessurun

>I would like one of the later models such as the two you mentioned.
> I am also looking for Leica-R lenses to use on my Canon 1dmk2.
> I currently have  a Zeiss Contax RTS II and the original 25mm
Distagon,
> 60mm
> S-Planar and 85mm f1.4 Planar - made in West Germany and which were
used
> for
> maybe 12 rolls of film and then never used again for the last 16
years.
> I discovered large format in 1989 and never looked back.
> Today I am a grandfather and looking for an outfit better suited to
> photographing children, macro and travel.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions you can offer,
> Mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JCB" <jcb@visualimpressions.com>
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:02 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: So.. what is the deal with Alpa Cameras?
> 
> 
>> At 02:10 AM 3/18/2005, Michael J Herring wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Do you know where one could still find a late model Alpa SLR in the
USA?
>>>Thanks,
>>>Mike
>>
>>
>> What do you call "late model."  Alpa's last models were 10d, 11e, and
>> various configurations of them. Somewhere in the 80's, Alpa started
>> re-badging an Asian SLR (I don't remember the manufacturer - perhaps
>> Chinon- as I was not interested) so a "late model" Alpa SLR might not
be
>> an Alpa.
>>
>> JB
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