Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:26 PM 2/5/2001 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: >The camera works perfectly now like it always has. It's a cube with a mirror in it. >A more elegant design never existed. I say Phooey to the prisms and the big lenses. >But would kill for a 100 or 120 macro. The 5.6/120 S-Planar was the first lens I bought when I got my 2000 FCM. I have had that set topple off a tripod. No damage at all but, thankfully, it landed on grass. Years ago, I did drop my first M3 off a table at a swimming pool, and it landed on concrete. Just put another ding in the chrome. (And it is a good thing this is the Leica USERS' Group, as this was a relatively sought-after collectible, one of those "first ten thousand". I later sold the camera for ten times what I had paid for it.) Oh, and I do love the 5.6/120 S-Planar. A magnificent lens. I was never equally happy with the later 4/120 Makro-Planar, so I kept the earlier lens. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!