Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rodgers, David jotted down the following: > Speaking of which, I'd been looking high and low for a 60-62 step up ring. I > found one in a junk bin at a photo store in Austin, TX. The store wanted > $35. Normally it's a $25 item, new. I asked, "Why so much?" I was told it > was prices as such because it said "Leica" on it. It did for some curious > reason. It was obviously made by Tiffen (even said Tiffen on it), and it was > plastic. I could squeeze it together slightly with my fingers. I got a 60-62 step up from B&H Photo Video about six months ago. It's aluminium, which means that putting it on the lens was a delicate operation, but once on, it stays on. Can't remember what the cost was, but (tap, tap, tap in the browser window...) ah yes, $8.95 for both Bower's and the "generic brand". Heliopan do one for three times that price. Check out: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ and then try and nagivate through their insanely stupid new layout (photo->filters->step-up rings->60mm). M. - -- Martin Howard | "Any sufficiently advanced technology Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | is indistiguishable from magic." email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Arthur C. Clarke www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------