Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/28

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Subject: [Leica] 1600 Leica R Lens (and four-wheel-drive Mercedes)
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:17:51 -0500
References: <CAMkHw3a=m23MBXO9giF-yJcedEaXRt3WY-fb0JkYgimoQ9is0g@mail.gmail.com> <F8B6E36D-0D98-47B6-95B1-B057B2592225@frozenlight.eu>

Probably no one but me on this list is old enough to remember the Airplane
films:

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
 Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's
happened up till now. 
Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs
came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into
oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. 

Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan
Wajsman
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:50 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] 1600 Leica R Lens (and four-wheel-drive Mercedes)

What a puny little lens ;-) At the 2006 Photokina, I saw the real thing:

http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Photokina-2006/1987925_8dxbBh#!i=101384548&k=yJ
mSm&lb=1&s=O

Cheers,
Nathan

On 28 Aug 2012, at 06:43, Greg Rubenstein wrote:

> Not clear from the article whether one or both are for sale, but
interesting.
> 
> http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2012/08/worlds-most-expensive-lens-unsurp
> risingly-leica
> 
> Greg Rubenstein
> 
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Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
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