Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/09

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Subject: Re: RARE LENS FOUND!!! AND A LUG-NUT OWNS IT!
From: "Arnold Don Abravanel" <arniea@loop.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 09:37:38 -0800

Would you take the money and run??

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> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Cc: Arnold Don Abravanel <arniea@loop.com>; Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
> Subject: RARE LENS FOUND!!! AND A LUG-NUT OWNS IT!
> Date: Saturday, November 08, 1997 7:11 PM
> 
> Arnold
> 
> I believe you have one of the 11910 2.8/180 Tele-Elmarit lenses for the
> Viso.  First, this lens is extremely rare:  only about 250 were produced,
> and all were sold through ELNY.  This lens was so rare that it never was
> mentioned in conventional Leitz literature, merely a listing in a single
> edition of the ELNY price list.
> 
> This lens was produced in 1965.  I understand it is identical optically
to
> the first version of the 2.8/180 Elmarit-R.
> 
> Go for it, kid:  you're shooting with a $3,500 lens!
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>