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Subject: [Leica] My first Leica purchase in several years...
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed Dec 3 21:27:24 2008
References: <A90C2287-C142-40F5-BB94-699B7154E214@frozenlight.eu> <a3f189160812031202u7d6f2ad2k4b03b63cc1cfc878@mail.gmail.com>

Yep, really amazing. I bought the 35mm lens in Australia. I bought the  
M8 in Scotland. I bought the hood for the 35mm and a spare battery in  
New York. I bought the 18mm Zeiss lens in California and it is  
currently being worked on in New York (by John Milich). I live in  
Spain and I am talking about all this with a guy in Louisiana.

:-)

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:

> 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
>>
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>> 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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In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] My first Leica purchase in several years...)
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