Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 19:50 3-9-97 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Bert, > >The world is really shrinking. I may recently have been looking at the >same CLE you refer to in your em on 2/9. I've seen a reasonably clean >CLE selling for NLG 1995 in a camera store on Laan van Meerdervoort. It >was recently serviced by their technician, and appears to operate perfect= >ly >well. I'm not sure if you looked inside (I'm not even sure I'm referring >to the same camera), if so I noticed two subtle gouges in the pressure >plate. These will have no effect on image quality, however they may >scratch the film surface. Vince we *are* talking about the very same camera, and I did see the marks on the pressure plate. >It appears that CLEs are fetching slightly higher >prices in the US. Even more so in Germany where they are advertised for = >up >to DM 3000. I'd be surprised to see someone fork out DM 3000 for a CLE, >since you can buy an M6 for less. The world is not just small, its also >strange at times. How right you are. I'm still undecided as to what to do, to buy or not to buy. - -------- Regards, Bert Keuken homepage: http://home.pi.net/~bertkeuk/home.html "Nerds typically know forty-six different ways to make love, but don't know any women." - Robert X. Cringely