Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/27

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Good starter body
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:30:52 -0700

Harrison McClary wrote:
> 
> This is true...also the older Canon FD stuff is prety cheap now, but I
> prefer the old AI non AF Nikon gear.  On KEH you can get a 50 1.4 AI in
> what they call bargain condition for 50-50 bucks...I got one of these a
> few months back and could not figure out why they called it
> bargain...looked very clean.  For just plinking around and learning on
> this would be the route I would go.
> 
> Or look into a Rolleiflex SL35M.  Then you get Zeiss glass.....I think MJ
> Small has one for sale??
> 
> On 6/27/99 2:22 PM Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
> >But could cost more than the camera. A 1.8 50 for a song and
> >featherweight, a 1.4 50 classic optics for a few more pennies but not much.
> >No better buyers market than non AF Nikon.
> 
> Best regards,
> Harrison McClary

I wish I was where I once was which was very broke and starting out and
had those options available to be.
It took me Months then to save up for a used Nikon 105 2.5 in the late
seventies. Now you find them in the grab box. (exaggeration)
Or to put it plainer: I wish I was starting out now. And I wouldn't have
wasted 7 years of my life in a stupid college but right off gotten a job
as someone's assistant.
Mark Rabiner