[rollei_list] Re: OT: The Dark Side and Flash
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:32:48 -0400
At 11:11 AM 7/23/2010, Peter K. wrote:
I think its funny you consider digital and flash
a money pit yet all the exotic lenses we talk about are not. To each his own.
Back in the days of camera shows, I was able to
buy cheap and sell high and swap and trade and
thus ended up with a LOT of really fine exotic
lenses quite inexpensively -- some of my gear
actually has a negative value, as I made more
money selling Leica and Rolleiflex the decades
than it cost me to buy my current Leica kit or, for that matter, my 2.8GX.
And a number of folks have gifted me items as a
thank-you for helping them on historical
points. One example: Jim Williams, a Contax RTS
fellow, sold me a lens at an embarrassingly low
price, and over my objection: the lens is a
RF-coupled LTM 1.5/7.5cm CZJ Biotar T. As of the
present, six of these are known to exist, and
there are standing offers in four
figures. Someday, I will sell it, but no time
soon: I like the pictures it produces on my M6,
an interesting contrast to those from my 1.4/75 Summilux-M.
Peter, if you are nice to people, you would be
amazed at the wonders which fall into your hands.
But with digital and digital flash, it is a cash
proposition, and I am retired and living on a
very fixed budget. So, I would have to sell
stuff off to invest in, say, a Canon L lens, and
I am not willing to do that right now, as I
receive at least four or five queries a week
which require me to dig out lenses and
accessories and camera bodies before answering
the question. Again, I will sell my gear
someday, but today is not the day, though, as I
find duplicates, I am selling those -- note that
I just added a 4/135 Super-Dynarex in M42 to my
FS list, as it is a duplicate to another I own.
Look at it another way. I am awash in M42 gear,
and I have two high-end T-Mount lenses, a Questar
700 and a Leica APO-Televid spotting scope. I
got an M42 adapter for $5 and a T-ring for $12,
both postpaid. THAT fits my constrained budget a
lot better than does that new $1400 L lens.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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