Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Telyt 400/560 f5 for Viso is considered rare and f5.6 is also scarce in my book. But f6.8 is pretty common and less appreciated, specially in R mount. I don't think many people know or use M (Viso) mount anyway. The 280/4.8 has several versions as far as I remember. The first version is considered pretty rare as the second version is the most common followed by the third (last) version, again in my book and knowledge. The 65/4 Macro-Elmar in black finish is pretty scarce but surfaces off and on as not a lot of people use it. The chrome version is pretty commonly showing up for sale again as not a lot of people want it. It seems that total quantity made has little to do with rarity in real world. Regards, David Original Message: - ----------------- From: Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:00:25 -0500 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] rare lenses i happened to stumble across this page: http://www.leicagallery.com/rarityratingslenses.htm and it rates the telyt 400/560 for M as "common" or "fairly common" which i have to disagree with. doug herr does absolutely amazing things with those lenses, so i've always kept an eye out for them. i can't remember every seeing a complete one for sale, except on ebay. furthermore, the V65 is also "common" or "fairly common" and you don't see that many of these either, particularly the black ones. in contrast, it rates the 280/f4.8 as "rare" and these appear to be fairly common to me. - -rei - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html