Vivek::ROTFL:
I tried to sell this when I was trying to buy the Leica MM.
Untitled by Vivek Iyer, on Flickr
Luckily, no one bought it! :clap:
What is the filter size for that lens?
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Vivek::ROTFL:
I tried to sell this when I was trying to buy the Leica MM.
Untitled by Vivek Iyer, on Flickr
Luckily, no one bought it! :clap:
Had to stop saying that or I would be dead 20 times over by now. My new line is never say never. LolOh how quickly we forget!! I think this lens is the 1st I ever saw Guy write something about selling the lens over his dead body .. over 10 years ago on FM ....
Except that it's a 200mm F1.8
49mm, John.Vivek:
What is the filter size for that lens?
Marc:I'm addicted to "atmospheric" optics shot wide open.
Previously it was the Zeiss 110/2FE on a Hasselblad 203FE, The Leica R35/1.4 and 85/1.4, the Leica M-75/1.4 ... all of which I increasingly couldn't manually focus as my eyes aged ... GONE.
Then the AF Contax N85/1.4 ... GONE due to Kyocera abandoning photographic gear.
Then it was the AF Canon 85/1.2, 135/2, and 200/1.8 ... GONE due to swapping systems.
Then the AF Hasselblad 100/2.2 which I used for many years, GONE due to leaving system.
I was adrift for a while until recently securing the Leica S-100/2 ... heavenly optic with Mandler OOF and acute IF areas, with a delicious roll off one to the other.
My Pyramid is under construction as I write this. 2,000' square at the base, 5,000' high ... with warrens worthy of a colony of ants ... the end of one which will house a solid gold shrine with the S-100/2 lens inside an ASPH transparent casing being made in Leica's glass foundry.
Any grave robber entering this chamber will be deleted by a custom program being written by Thomas Knoll ... who himself will then be deleted by a program written by an anonymous hacker, who in turn will be exposed to Plutonium poisoning ... ect., etc., etc.
The final safeguard is personal ID firmware Leica is installing that allows only me to take nice pictures with it. Any one else will take nothing but crap shots no matter how good they are.
I plan on using it in the afterlife ... probably to document the 2nd circle of Dante's Hell due to LUSTING after all these lenses.
ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!
- Marc
Would make a nice foundation for the pyramid as well.Lens that I regret selling in the past: Summicron 180/2.