[Leica] Are you still using an R6 or R6.2?

[michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)]

You're right.
The 100 is great. I bought one for EUR150.


Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema

Mark Rabiner wrote:
> Frank I could sell my Hassy glass.
> July 11 2002 in Portland I bought a Zeiss 100mm f3.5 Cfi Planar T* for the
> price of a Noctilux that year maybe more I think.
> got it for $2582
> Today its worth nothing
> I could sell it today for 800 bucks if I threw in a lens hood and back 
> caps.
> 
> Well I know for sure the week I parted with the thing some rogue company is
> going to break out with a everyman consumer medium format back and Hassy
> Belly Futures are going bullish just as Leica stuff has stayed very much in
> the black all this time.
> Because people will be able to use it digitally.
> 
> 
> The Zeiss 100 3.5 I think can be compared to the Leica 75 Summicron or the
> 60 Macro R.
> When nothing less that the top optic will do to get everything straight:
> 
> http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/product.asp?P_ID=1451&P=100/3.5-Planar-Cfi-T*
> 
> : The 100mm Planar is a lens designed to deliver virtually zero distortion
> and extremely well defined image details irrespective of aperture setting.
> This makes it the first choice when the demands on exact reproduction of 
> the
> geometry of the subject and resolution are extremely high, such as in
> architectural, aerial surveying, copying, industrial, and scientific
> photography. It also makes a great alternative to the 80mm as a standard
> lens, particularly as a short portrait lens.
> 
> 
> I'm going to sit on it.
> I'm going to wait.
> 
> A digital medium format BACK that might take over much of my photography
> would not have to have that many megapixels at all. It could have 16. Less.
> Many of them now have coincidentally a 1.5 crop factor which I'm got at I'd
> like that or maybe a little better. And I'd like the iso to go maybe higher
> than 400.
> But what I'd get would be extreme clarity.
> A life support system for some real Zeiss glass.
> 
> The time to buy Hassy Zeiss glass is NOW. When thy are for all practical
> purposes FREE. You buy the lens they give you a body free.  Of visa versa.
> Usually versa.
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> * I see Sammy's is selling a 100 3.5 now for $3578.
> Buy one now from some guy on eBay and save $3000!
> In effect...
> Darned close...
> I'm sure there's a deal that good somewhere in photography I just don't 
> know
> what it is.
> Its almost enough to get a guy to go out and buy a roll of film!
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:33:28 +0100
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Are you still using an R6 or R6.2?
>>
>> The M8 means Leica lenses still have plenty of users. Pen lenses were
>> never that good and digital (or age of participants!) has dented the
>> collector market considerably. Many fabulous Hassy and Rollei lenses
>> have lost 90% of their value. Not much market any more.
>> Supply and demand at work!
>> Frank
>>
> 
> 
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