Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike, I've not been following this thread at all (I've only known $5,000 as Monopoly money for the past year of so <s>) but does anyone know how common or valuable the hood for the 2.1cm f/4 Nikkor SLR lens is compared to the 2.1 RF hood? I'm having my lens recoated by Malcolm Taylor over here in the UK (I'm, and it's, basically a "user" not a "collector") but I've had a well-known dealer offering me £100 sight-unseen for the scratched hood... and he simply wasn't interested in the lens, finder, caps or case at all. I turned the offer down but this thread has aroused my ($$$-sign) curiousity! Ed Buziak / Publisher Camera & Darkroom magazine ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk http://www.camera-and-darkroom.co.uk - ---------- >From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] That expensive Nikon hood >Date: Fri, Mar 17, 2000, 5:20 pm > >Curious--as of Friday afternoon, the $5500 bid for that Nikon lens hood >had gone DOWN. How does that happen in an eBay auction??? A withdrawn >bid? But the same person is still the high bidder. > >He's also added a comment to the effect that "a leading Nikon expert" >has only seen 3 or 4 of these hoods in his lifetime, and believes that >only 10 such hoods exist. > >--Mike >