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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Friedlander & Leica 21 mm lenses
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:44:21 -0000

The reality is that they are all astronomically expensive. But what's the
alternative? ;-)


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Subject: [Leica] Re: Friedlander & Leica 21 mm lenses



Mark

>>I'll go with the Biogon which I get for my 50th birthday party just
around the
corner in January. Meanwhile the 24 is as wide as I need to go and god
knows
what Lee F. could have done with that tremendous tool!
Mark Rabiner<<

Isn't is interesting that  when you're 15-years-old a birthday 11-months
into the future seems like a century away; but at 49, it's "just around the
corner"? Of course, waiting for a Hasselblad Super-Wide may make your 50th
seem like the next century; which, in this intance,  would actually be the
case.

Along the same lines, right out of college a new M camera seemed
astronomically expensive. Whereas after 20 plus years in the workforce it
seems ....I was going to say affordable, but I can't seem to do so. An
M6... Hexar...heck, especially the Super-Wide; they all seem astronomically
expensive! Or is it just me that perceives it such?

David.