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Subject: [Leica] LIFE, The Babe & a gear question
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:26:39 -0400

This guy says its a " Lot 185: Flektoskop reflex housing no. 15484 Carl
Zeiss, Jena; Contax-fit, with a Carl Zeiss, Jena Sonnar T f/4 30cm. lens no.
3114737; and."

http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/flektoskop-reflex-housing-no.-15484-carl-
zeiss,-1-c-e5a7b2e286
Or
http://tinyurl.com/32qybfc


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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:44:12 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] LIFE, The Babe & a gear question
> 
>   An interesting and unpublished color set of Babe Ruth's last Yankee
> Stadium appearance in 1948.
> 
> http://www.life.com/image/50453928/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpubli
> shed
> 
> below is the Life photographer Ralph Morse in 1943.  Gear question:
> what's he shooting?  My uninformed guess is a Contax and a mirror
> housing.  And what lens is that fast-looking chrome beauty?
> 
> http://www.life.com/image/53376685/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpubli
> shed
> 
> -rei
> 
> 
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