They had the pre-war, hydrogen filled prototype, but after the Hindenburg thing, it was deemed not to be commercially viable. ;-) Tom Schofield --- Doug Herr <telyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Feb 10, 2007, at 4:50 PM, David Young wrote: > > > At 10/02/2007, you wrote: > >> Colin, > >> Remember years ago, when Leica gave you a coupon > for a "Free" Audi/ > >> Volkswagen > >> Fox when you purchased a "New" 800mm Telyt? > >> > >> What can I say? You'd NEED the car to hold the > weight of a 400 f/ > >> 2.8 AF > >> w/image stabilization! > >> > >> > >> Art Tafil > > > > > > Aw... c' mon, Art. I was holding out for the 560 > Summicron! > > suppose it were helium-filled; might shave a gram or > two off the weight! > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/