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Subject: [Leica] Anyone want a 100mm Macro Elmar f4 for BELLOW?
From: joelct at singnet.com.sg (Joseph Low)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:50:44 +0800
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Hi James

I have the Novoflex Bellows for Leica R with 105 lens ( separate ) - contact
me
Offline - joelct at singnet.com.sg

Joseph 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
James Laird
Sent: Friday, 23 April, 2010 6:54 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Anyone want a 100mm Macro Elmar f4 for BELLOW?

Yea but KEH of course doesn't have a bellow for the Leica R. The few I
can find on e*** command more bucks than I want to spend. Oh well, I
hate to but I guess I'll send this beauty back.

Jim Laird

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
>> I know it's early for FFS but KEH just shipped me the 100 f4
>> Macro-Elmar I ordered (if you remember the thread OT: Opinions on
>> Leica R 100 F4 Macro Elmar 3-Cam) and it turned out to be the BELLOWS
>> version. Their bad. I don't even have a bellows. They're sending me a
>> FEDEX return label their cost. The lens comes with the 1:1 adapter and
>> is in my opinion in MINT condition even though they rated it UG. If
>> anybody wants it my cost was only $334.29 with shipping! Let me know
>> quickly or I'll returrn it tomorrow.
>>
>> Jim Laiird
>
>
> Hasselblad made a bellows lens, the MAKRO-PLANAR CF F/5.6 135MM
> Focuses from one inch to infinity. Which is a long distance away.
> All you need a a bellows. Maybe get one from a retired chimney sweep or
> organ grinder.
> And they stopped making that gorgeous lens a long time ago. And they at
the
> time I was looking were hard to find. Which was frustrating as all the
other
> 3 thousand dollar Hassy Zeiss glass was going for 5o bucks.
> Much more useful than the regular boring 120 macro which I ended up
getting.
>
> Get a bellows. I bet they are babe magnets.
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] Anyone want a 100mm Macro Elmar f4 for BELLOW?)
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Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] Anyone want a 100mm Macro Elmar f4 for BELLOW?)