Who's got Summicron 2461413?

[sdotkling]

Maybe I'm getting weird, but I've been wondering what happened to the jewel-like lens I had to sell to pay my rent when times were tough in 1976.

I sold it ---got robbed actually---at a somewhat sleazy camera store in Manhattan. Where did it go? Who bought it? Who bought it after that?

Anybody got 35 Summicron 2461413? Don't worry, I don't want it back.

But haven't YOU ever wondered where your old stuff went, year after year?

 

[Rob-F]

Yeah, I wonder where my IIIf #685475 is. Last seen in Las Vegas in the 1960's.

 

[mdarnton]

My lamentably sold 85/1.8 Canon lens has a scoop filed out of the knurled base mount where the Leica red dot would be, for my thumb to find and to allow it to be mounted in the dark when the M adapter was on. Anyone seen her? :-(

 

[rbsinto]

Maybe I'm getting weird, but I've been wondering what happened to the jewel-like lens I had to sell to pay my rent when times were tough in 1976.

I sold it ---got robbed actually---at a somewhat sleazy camera store in Manhattan. Where did it go? Who bought it? Who bought it after that?

Anybody got 35 Summicron 2461413? Don't worry, I don't want it back.

But haven't YOU ever wondered where your old stuff went, year after year?

Not sure, but I think it's owned by a guy named Eddy.

 

[helen.HH]

My heart skipped a beat
Thinking my 35 was close ....
But Alas not that close 2461547

 

[sdotkling]

Here's a slide I pulled out of a shoebox just the other day. That's the lens in my hand over 35 years ago. http://www.sdotkling.com/pix/Agfa-Slide0001.jpg

 

[sdotkling]

Ha! No, wasn't Olden (though I used to go there every weekend it seemed when I was in high school.) I can't remember the name, somewhere down in the Photo District, West 17th Street, I think. There's a Belgian bakery there now.
They gave me $450 for an M2, a 35 Summicron and a 90 Tele-Elmarit. They said it was all worthless, really, because of the fungus. I had never heard of fungus before, so I believed every word, and slunk out with my $450.

 

[Andrea Taurisano]

hey, this sounds like a movie: Mattew (Tom Hanks) is a passionate photographer and forumer determined to tracing and buying back his first Leica camera, given to him by his now dead grandfather and that he regrets to have sold for a few bucks during his college time.

Spending nights on forums, he finds out that the camera was last referred to in a three years old thread. Its last owner turns out to have newly died in a car accident, but his young widow (Meg Ryan, or Uma Thurman or whoever cute..) takes good care of the camera.

You guess the final.. 🙂 (no reference whatsoever to actual people here on the forum or anywhere else, of course.. just kidding)

 

[sdotkling]

B&H was on 17th? Between Fifth and Sixth? South side of the street? Up a front stoop? Is that possible?

 

[jsrockit]

Yep... that's where they were... since the 70s until at least the 90s.

 

[uhoh7]

My lamentably sold 85/1.8 Canon lens has a scoop filed out of the knurled base mount where the Leica red dot would be, for my thumb to find and to allow it to be mounted in the dark when the M adapter was on. Anyone seen her? :-(

I'm going to sell some glass this spring. A few I won't:

Canon:
100/2
85/1.8
85/1.5

Pen F 42/1.2

too fun and too hard to find 😉