[Leica] Christmas comes early

[Peter Klein]

That's quite a gift!
--Peter

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
wrote:
>
> 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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