[Leica] Buying a Leica lens?

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

Aww, you sold that military parkerized green M2?! That thing was
fantastic! And probably bulletproof.

Phil Forrest


On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:55:13 -0500
Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only lens I ever bought new was the 75 I bought when Geoff gave
> me a heads up, and the AUS$ was great compared to the US$.   I have
> several other  Leitz or Leica lenses, all second hand.
> 
> Four C/V lenses all new, all replaced by Leica now except the 15 M.
> I had the LTM C/S, liked performance and hated the handling.
> Likewise the LTM 21. Really nice performer, hideous handling.
> 
> The 21 pre-asph Leica is a far better handling lens.  This is my
> second one.  The first I sold to GeeBee, because he could use it
> better than I could, and I had just bought the C/V.
> 
> The only lens I regret selling was a Noctilux. I really didn't bond
> with it on my M7, but I would love to see what it can doo on the M9.
> 
> I bought my M6 and my M8 new.  My M9 was a Popflash deal with hardly
> any counts on it.
> 
> I still have an M6, MDa and CL.
> 
> R3, R8, CLE, M2, M42, all bought used, all gone.
> 



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