My appolgies to the peerson that posted the query about the M7 soft-release... Check this out!

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Go figure! To whomever it was I was snide to in the earlier post regarding this item, please accept my appologies...

:-),

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), March 07, 2002

Answers

Whaaaaaaaaaatttttttt!

-- Giles Poilu (giles@monpoilu.icom43.net), March 07, 2002.

Now my appologies to the rest of the group for not reading all of the earlier posts before I posted this! Oh well...... It's shaping up to be one of those days...

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), March 07, 2002.

192 Bucks! and the clock ain't stopped ticking on this auction. Expensive 2 pieces of aluminium!

-- sparkie (sparkie@mailcity.com), March 07, 2002.

Let's do the math: 10 of these pins are worth a brand new M6 TTL? 12 of these pins are worth a brand new 75mm Summilux, or a brand new M7. 14 of these pins are worth more than a brand new 50mm Noctilux.

There sure are some people desperate for pins. I hope it's not another "let's bid up the price" eBay modus operandus.

Compared to all that, Leica cameras are a bargain.

Yawn.

-- Vikram (VSingh493@aol.com), March 07, 2002.


If Leica finds out people will pay almost $200 for these things, I suspect that you'll see them in their next catalog for around $50-60 a pop. Especially if it works as well as Tom's. They do know their market.

Jerry

-- Jerome R. Pfile, Jr. (JerryPfile@msn.com), March 07, 2002.



Geez. I figured maybe $ 50 at the most! $ 192+, there are some people who want one an awful lot. But you can get an original and much more elegant Leitz Wetzlar chrome soft release for $ 50 or less. Maybe even as low as $ 20-25. The new one isn't nearly as nicely made or engraved.

-- Eliot (erosen@lij.edu), March 07, 2002.

Laugh all you want, but I'd give 20 bucks, or 20 quid for that matter, if someone handed one of those to me. It cool, real cool!

-- Dan Brown (brpatent@swbell.net), March 07, 2002.

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