[Leica] Friday For Sale: opening bell Affordable Ancient Leicas Spotted Pro Photo Portland

Mark Kronquist mak at teleport.com
Thu Jul 23 10:05:46 PDT 2020


As in the old days pointers to bargains

Pro Photo Supply 503 241 1112 x1  Tom or KC

Leica O (2000) whole kit new looking $795

They also have a Model IIIG kit

A Slug of SM Leica and CV Lenses

And a Nikon RF S-2 Black Dial Kit


Tell them Mark sent you

> On Jul 23, 2020, at 3:01 AM, reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us wrote:
> 
> In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it
> is just after midnight (00:01) on Friday, so the Leica
> Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is officially open for
> business. 
> 
> Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is
> prounced "Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as
> Kirimati and Kiritimati. Kiritimati is pronounced
> "Kee-ri-see-mass". (Say it out loud.) When it was an
> English colony, it was  known as Christmas Island. There
> is another unrelated island with that name (an Australian
> territory in the Indian ocean). Kirimati is part of the
> Line Islands archipelago.
> 
> Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service.
> Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it
> is now safe in terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot
> of cast-off military hardware littering the edges of the
> island, but it serves more as a replacement for pandanus
> leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of
> rusting scrap metal serve as landmarks.
> 
> There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow
> sand flats around the island.  It's slow film country; the
> light is incredibly intense, being very near the equator.
> 
> 
> NO ARCHIVE
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> 
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