Kent
Finally at home...
Gentlemen, I went to the annual meeting weekend of Leica Historica e.V.
I left home Saturday morning, the sun tried to break through the cloudy sky.
After about 45min I arrived in Solms and was excited to go inside.
The gym was already pretty crowded but it was still OK, you could see all the things you were interested in.
As a one-year-member of Leica Historica e.V. I already know several regular visitiors, sellers and the chief organzier and thus chatted a bit before I had a look at the tables.
There were hundreds of wonderful items on display. Unfortunately, the prices were still very high. Roumor has it that there still is a great demand in China and that this spoils the prices for local customers.
As you might imagine, there were not only Leica items offered:
Then I stopped taking photos and talked to many vendors, because I was looking for a 46mm screw-in lens hood. But I did not find one. Unusual size that is. (Well, I ordered one two days later on EBAY. 😉)
I finally found this lens:
A Minolta Rokkor 3.5/24-35. Great for the NEX-system!
After about two hours I left the fair and drove to Wetzlar, to the Wetzlarer Hof hotel, where I checked in for the night.
The hotel is OK, nothing special, a typical conference hotel:
Since I had a lot of time, I went down to the Old Town of Wetzlar, a two minute walk from my hotel, and had a delicious lunch in an Italian restaurant called "Bistro am Dom".
Tomatoesoup
Sombrero ai Castani
That was really good! Much better than I had expected.
A nice coffee in a little coffee shop in which the owner roasts the beans regularly complemented that lunch.
I left home Saturday morning, the sun tried to break through the cloudy sky.
After about 45min I arrived in Solms and was excited to go inside.
The gym was already pretty crowded but it was still OK, you could see all the things you were interested in.
As a one-year-member of Leica Historica e.V. I already know several regular visitiors, sellers and the chief organzier and thus chatted a bit before I had a look at the tables.
There were hundreds of wonderful items on display. Unfortunately, the prices were still very high. Roumor has it that there still is a great demand in China and that this spoils the prices for local customers.
As you might imagine, there were not only Leica items offered:
Then I stopped taking photos and talked to many vendors, because I was looking for a 46mm screw-in lens hood. But I did not find one. Unusual size that is. (Well, I ordered one two days later on EBAY. 😉)
I finally found this lens:
A Minolta Rokkor 3.5/24-35. Great for the NEX-system!
After about two hours I left the fair and drove to Wetzlar, to the Wetzlarer Hof hotel, where I checked in for the night.
The hotel is OK, nothing special, a typical conference hotel:
Since I had a lot of time, I went down to the Old Town of Wetzlar, a two minute walk from my hotel, and had a delicious lunch in an Italian restaurant called "Bistro am Dom".
Tomatoesoup
Sombrero ai Castani
That was really good! Much better than I had expected.
A nice coffee in a little coffee shop in which the owner roasts the beans regularly complemented that lunch.
