[Leica] Christmas comes early

Jim Nichols jhnichols at lighttube.net
Fri Dec 12 21:59:17 PST 2014


Congratulations!  I look forward to your impressions of the "bokeh" that 
this lens produces.  I have a Canon 50/1.4, but have never used the 1.2.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 12/12/2014 11:17 PM, Jay Burleson wrote:
> I was showing some prints to folks that come into where I work the 
> other day, and discussing cameras with some of them.
> One gentleman tells me his dad had a Leica and unfortunately they sold 
> all of his cameras and lenses when he died years ago.
> BUT...
> He continues to say a few weeks ago he was getting ready to move, and 
> looked in a box that had negs and prints that his dad took, and he 
> found a smaller box that had, as he said "some old Canon lens."
> So I said bring it in & I'll look at it.
>
> He did so, today, and GAVE me a pristine Canon 50mm f/1.2 LTM lens, 
> complete with the leather lens case & both original caps.
> It also had the original hood and a yellow filter, with the leather 
> case that holds both of those.
>
> I can't wait to get a proper LTM adapter & go out and play with it on 
> the Monochrom...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mfa6mz9
>
>
> Jay
>
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