Heads Up on an M5

[sepiareverb]

New seller, but if you're in the UK and can go look at it you might get a deal.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1974-5-...oryZ4701QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

No interest, no connection to seller- only a love for the M5!

 

[sting-ray]

I don't understand the sale of this with it:
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Black Summicron 1:4/35mm lens
[/FONT]I didn't think crons were ever anything but f/2... the pic of the 35 is very small and blurry... but surely the seller is reading off the lens and not the photo?

 

[sepiareverb]

I'd want to go look at it. It's probably a typo.

 

[venchka]

A 2-lug body as late as 1974-1975? I didn't know that. The 35mm lens is for sure a tabbed, Canadian Summicron, #271xxx. Anubody have a serial number list handy? Version 3 methinks, with hood. Almost worth the opening bid price in the Old Country.

 

[sepiareverb]

271XXX comes in at 1974 on the forloren site.

Maybe a deal if your a gambler.

 

[venchka]

No telling what price it sells for. A clever seller would split them up. If this had come along when I was first shopping, I would have been all over it. Up to a point. Or not. Back in my Dark Ebay days I found myself paying silly crazy prices for stuff. Then I found the RFF. I haven't saved any money. I just get better stuff from nicer people.

 

[sting-ray]

RFF and photo.net, especially when it had the separate Leica ads section are so much more friendly for buying cameras than eBay... this M5 is a classic example of the bay's cloudiness.... who knows what the condition of the lenses are? At least here you have photographs of equipment taken by photographers - descriptions provided by people who know their cameras intimately and actually WANT the buyer to enjoy them - not just to make the money and be done with it.