Re: [Leica] Nathan's FS'es // hooked on Leica and some off topic stuff as well- DELETE TIME!

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Bill-
Your sentiments translate very well! I cannot imagine anyone being offended
by expressing a simple idea here! :o}~
I too considered selling my 50/3,5 Elmar, for about thirty seconds! You are
right! It has a definite charm that is still there after  all those years! I
like to think it's sort of like Katherine Hepburn- lovely and classy despite
the years, or maybe because of them! (New flame thread there, guys!)
And please- Never feel you have to apologize for expressing yourself in what
may not be your 'mother tongue'! English is wonderfully flexible in syntax
and pronunciation, and some quite delightful variations can be found here-
none so unintelligible that they can't be sorted out! Maybe it's the fact
that English has so greatly borrowed from other languages! We even find
humor in "Japlish" or Spanglish"- but even then with "tootling the horn,
loudly" ( from a Japanese car owner's manual), we know what is being said!
Dan, Mit der Leicakleinbilderkamera fur der gefingerpoken, und der foto
gegrabben....

- -here- apologies to our Teutonic friends, from a person of uncertain
ancestry! Is Post derived from the German 'Post' or the Dutch, 'Poost'? Who
knows! Well- I am off to breakfast with some more camera buddies- some of
whom actually use **GASP** Nikons!
Dan, again, Tootling the horn, loudly!
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Larsen <ohlen@lightspeed.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 1:53 AM
Subject: [Leica] Nathan's FS'es // hooked on Leica


> Nathan writes:
>
>
> |Friends,
> |
> |After looking at the slides I shot in Israel with the 135mm Apo Telyt,
> |it is no longer for sale ;-) So much for my grand consolidation plan.
> |However, the following items are still available:
> |
> |3.5/50mm collapsible Elmar (screw mount). It is from 1952 or 1953,
> |glass completely clean, normal cosmetic signs of use for a 47-year old
> |lens. It came with my IIIf but I have now replaced it with a Summitar.
> |200 EUR or
> |equivalent in US$, worldwide shipping included.///snip
>
>
> Welcome to the club.  Are you sure that you really want to sell the 3.5/50
> collapsible.  Think about.  A lousy 200 EUR for the lens.  You can put it
on
> your M and slip it in your coat pocket and pull the camera and lens out in
a
> moment to capture a moment.  You don't have to worry about one of Ted's
cows
> flinging stuff on it.  You probably cannot duplicate the photos it takes
with
> a more modern lens.  (I mean once you learn the characteristics of the
lens
> ... sometimes you want to exploit what is currently thought of as
weaknesses
> of the lens).  Are you really sure that you might not want to use the
Elmar?
>
> I have the problem that rationally I want to have a M carry system of the
> 75/1.4 and the 35/2asph...but I cannot find it within myself to sell other
> lenses.  I know each of the others well --- what they will do --- what
their
> faults are --- and how to exploit the lenses (I am still learning this).
I
> keep promising my wife I will sell something --- but I think it might be
her
> car before it is one of my lenses.
>
> I hope this translates well.  No offense is intended.  But your post was
the
> most humourous I have read lately --- and certainly doesn't fall within
the
> recent diatribes on humour.
>
> Med venlig hilsens fra
> Bill Larsen
> ohlen@lightspeed.net
>
>
>