Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Would you like to sell it? I think they were made in the 1960s. Thanks, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 6:19 PM 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> -- >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. >> It has removed 367 spam emails to date. >> Paying users do not have this message in their emails. >> Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 367 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now!