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Subject: [Leica] My first Leica purchase in several years...
From: alal at duke.poly.edu (A. Lal)
Date: Wed Dec 3 12:32:55 2008
References: <A90C2287-C142-40F5-BB94-699B7154E214@frozenlight.eu> <a3f189160812031202u7d6f2ad2k4b03b63cc1cfc878@mail.gmail.com>

Ah Ha! So you're the one. ;-).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr@gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 03 December, 2008 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] My first Leica purchase in several years...


>I bought a 75 from the same dealer.  It arrived today after eight days of
> travel.  Part of that was over the holiday and weekend.  I've ordered a 
> lens
> hood from one of the HK dealers.  I use them on my Pentax lenses, and for
> $15 bucks they do the same job as the Leica ones.  My IR cut filter is
> coming from Popflash.  Amazing world we live in, huh?
>
>
> Sonny
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> 
> wrote:
>
>> ...is a new 35mm Summarit, just arrived yesterday from Australia. The 
>> lens
>> feels very good, every bit as solid as the Summicrons etc. Now I am just
>> missing one tiny bit of kit to be able to actually take pictures with it 
>> ;-)
>>
>> One peeve, however, is that the lens hood is not built in nor included 
>> with
>> the lens--you have to buy it separately. I think it is a bit cheesy, not 
>> so
>> much because of the money, but because of the hassle of having to hunt
>> around for it on the web. I live in the Third World as far as Leica is
>> concerned: the nearest Leica dealer is in Valencia, 180 km away, and the
>> nearest good dealers are in Barcelona (550 km) or Madrid (430 km). Even
>> then, I am not sure if they would have that particular item in stock, so 
>> I
>> just ordered it from B&H. But in the end I would rather pay a bit more 
>> for
>> the lens and have the hood included.
>>
>> Well, I guess I should not complain too much, given that I paid $1414 for
>> the lens--but those were Australian dollars :-)
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>
>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> USA
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Replies: Reply from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] My first Leica purchase in several years...)
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