pico Posted February 5, 2016 Share #1 Posted February 5, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Cruising the market place and I am floored, stunned by a couple items, in particular the lens shade for 75mm Summilux version 1. It is apparently the same for one Noctilux. It's just a chunk of plastic! . Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lleo Posted February 5, 2016 Share #2 Posted February 5, 2016 Pico, buying a Leica in a sort of way is like buying a Rolls Royce. Beside the real technical perfection, the first more than the second, you pay a certain amount just because the red dot. Like Fender guitars, just to make an example. The worst pieces of chunk on the Earth, but you pay a liver just because there's "Fender" on the headstock. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denys Posted February 6, 2016 Share #3 Posted February 6, 2016 I think the Stratocaster is a WONDERFULL thing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.noctilux Posted February 7, 2016 Share #4 Posted February 7, 2016 Cruising the market place and I am floored, stunned by a couple items, in particular the lens shade for 75mm Summilux version 1. It is apparently the same for one Noctilux. It's just a chunk of plastic! . Pico, If you refer to the 12503 hood, it's not "chunk of plastic" but metal and it's only for Noctilux 1.2, and very rare , not for first Summilux-M 1.4/75. like this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/User-Leica-12503-Lens-hood-For-Noctilux-M-1-1-2-50mm-50-1-2-Rare/252253131155?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D34862%26meid%3D1783c3c9d4f54690b96a27c43abbe1b9%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D231786747581 You could buy with the lens for almost "free" : http://www.schouten-select.com/index.php/Leica/1304029-Leica-50mm-f1.2-Noctilux-12503-Hood-Very-Rare.html After all the plastic 12544 is not "so expensive" for an original Leica hood not beeing made anymore. http://www.schouten-select.com/index.php/Leica/1406013-Leica-12544-Lens-Hood-For-Noctilux-Box.html http://www.ebay.de/itm/Lens-shade-hood-Sonnen-Blende-LEICA-Leitz-12544-NOCTILUX-1-50-50mm-F1-/310836943930?hash=item485f535c3a Regards, Arnaud Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lleo Posted February 7, 2016 Share #5 Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) I think the Stratocaster is a WONDERFULL thing! Not as much as Tele Edited February 7, 2016 by lleo 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambro51 Posted February 7, 2016 Share #6 Posted February 7, 2016 .....an hour on my metal lathe... 50 cents worth of aluminum. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticman Posted February 7, 2016 Share #7 Posted February 7, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) I find prices are stratospherically high when I am trying to buy. When attempting to sell, they are dispiritingly low. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manoleica Posted February 7, 2016 Share #8 Posted February 7, 2016 I find prices are stratospherically high when I am trying to buy. When attempting to sell, they are dispiritingly low. That's called reality -- damn bl**dy painful.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share #9 Posted February 7, 2016 I was speaking of lens shade #12539 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted February 7, 2016 Share #10 Posted February 7, 2016 From the wiki here: Code name - 12539 Production era - 1977-1982 Type - Hood for 50mm f/2 Summicron-M, 2nd version 50mm f/1 Noctilux-M and 1st version 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M Red Dot has one at £249 - looks like its the 'rarer' hood for the Noctilux - hence hideous price. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denys Posted February 7, 2016 Share #11 Posted February 7, 2016 Not as much as Tele ..yes - but one doesn't need a licence to have a Strat. ;-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lleo Posted February 7, 2016 Share #12 Posted February 7, 2016 Haha. Well they're both "fenders". Maybe it's better you get a Paul Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lleo Posted February 7, 2016 Share #13 Posted February 7, 2016 I find prices are stratospherically high when I am trying to buy. When attempting to sell, they are dispiritingly low. Plastic, the guy at the shop where I took some pics I posted on my Flickr page, had once a Leica collection. Maybe it wasn't as wide as Jean Claude's, Pierre's or Luigi's, but he told me when he sold it he bought a garage... But. He actually had the chance to buy the collection in different pieces, moments, and from different people who lost a huge value when selling their stuff. He found himself in the same situation. Beside buying the garage, he sold the collection in pieces and losing a bunch of money. So it's a returning circle. This is even worse when talking about digital. I've got a X-E2 on last Thursday. I gave in my Sony which is been valued quite good, for being a shop: Euros 200,00. Bu it was like new, with the bag, adaptor for filters and hood, still guaranteed 'til next month. But I've paid almost Euros 400,00 two years ago, so I lost Euros 100,00 per year. Worse than gold, lol. What is the lesson? Buy digital only when the camera is one or two years old and the price dropped like hell, with the satisfaction of our mate Doc 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lleo Posted February 7, 2016 Share #14 Posted February 7, 2016 ..yes - but one doesn't need a licence to have a Strat. ;-) By the way... I don't remember good, maybe it was a Velvia in a Nikon (at that time I haven't the Leica yet) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted February 7, 2016 Share #15 Posted February 7, 2016 Not as much as Tele Particularly in Ritchie Blackmore's hands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted February 7, 2016 Share #16 Posted February 7, 2016 What is the lesson? Buy digital only when the camera is one or two years old and the price dropped like hell, with the satisfaction of our mate Doc No more than one digital at a time and if you can afford buy only mint items if you plan to sell them some day in the future. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share #17 Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) No more than one digital at a time and if you can afford buy only mint items if you plan to sell them some day in the future. At first I thought you had introduced something new to my view of photographic life; impending obsolescence built into digital photography emphasizing ephemeral quality. But now I know that it is a notion of nonsense. Any image of consequence, remembrance is made so - alive regardless of how it is made. Equipment be damned. Edited February 8, 2016 by pico Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M9reno Posted February 8, 2016 Share #18 Posted February 8, 2016 JC is right: one digital at a time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lleo Posted February 8, 2016 Share #19 Posted February 8, 2016 Even because one digital it's enough Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambro51 Posted February 8, 2016 Share #20 Posted February 8, 2016 ..and the cold hard reality is in 2016 you make pictures with a smartphone. But I love Leicas anyway!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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