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Subject: [Leica] What's the shortest record for Leica Sellers Regret?
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Oct 9 11:06:14 2008
References: <48EDF8E3.5050106@sympatico.ca> <58DF0E70-CAD0-4136-920B-1473DFDFAD54@verizon.net>

On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Leonard Taupier wrote:

> My biggest regret was selling my Noctilux


me too...I used to own two, amazingly, I only used one at a time...so  
I sold the mint newer one....

dumb...

I wish I had kept it...it's worth a fortune now...

Steve


> (traded at my local dealer) after I bought my M8 and struggled with  
> back focus issues. I thought about it all night afterwards and went  
> back in the morning and bought it back for the trade in price. I  
> wasn't about to let a little thing like back focus deny me the joy  
> of using this wonderful tool. I then spent the next 8 hours  
> adjusting my M8 rangefinder and testing every  lens I owned after  
> each adjustment to make sure everything was still good. It messed up  
> the focus of my 135mm APO and 90mm AA but I didn't care. After a  
> year I finally sent the lens to DAG for adjustment and realigned the  
> M8 back to nominal.
>
> After that I regret selling my Hassy 500C and 3 lenses.
> Then my 1st Rollei T.
>
> I eventually replaced the Hassy and Rollei years later.
>
> Now I don't sell anything. It's too stressful.
>
> Len
>
>
>
> On Oct 9, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Vick Ko wrote:
>
>> What's the shortest record for Leica Sellers Regret?
>>
>> Me - sold M8 last week.  Was negotiating purchase of RD1 yesterday  
>> night.
>> Very very glad this morning that it fell through.
>>
>> Still no loaded cameras in the house; three propacks of 220 Fuji  
>> film sitting in the fridge saying "use me"!
>>
>> Hasselblad E24 back, sitting ready, waiting and willing.
>>
>>
>> ....Vick
>>
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In reply to: Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] What's the shortest record for Leica Sellers Regret?)
Message from len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] What's the shortest record for Leica Sellers Regret?)