Stephen Gandy is selling it for US$249 - $399 with a nice 35/2.5
compact lens. $450 with the 25/4. (That's about a $50 discount).
If you want to use the wides like the 12mm, 15mm and esp. the 21mm,
the Bessa T at $185 is a bargain.
He normally charges about $20 for postage to Aus.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 11/04/2006, at 10:03 PM, Bart Wientjes wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> are you looking at the plain 'R' model?
> What are the prices like around there?
> A local shop here sells the body for 279 Euro (about 300 U$D). Sounds
> cheep to me.
> I should stop looking now, I have a high risk of getting infected!
>
> Bart
>
>
> On 4/11/06, Andrew McPhee <macca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Some interesting replies to my 'problem'. Mostly yays and not
>> many nays
>> (as I expected from a bunch of enablers like you lot).
>>
>> Sure, something in the Leica line would be very nice but anything
>> decent
>> seems to be way out of my price range. Anything that fits my
>> budget is
>> getting pretty old and I certainly don't like the look of that unique
>> loading method (go ahead, call me a wuss).
>>
>> As for Wayne's question about what lenses I'd get for the Bessa R
>> - I'd
>> probably stick with a couple from the modern Voigtlander range,
>> probably a
>> 35/2.5 Skopar and a 75/2.5 Heliar. Leica glass would be nice but
>> it would
>> have to be at the right price (unlikely) and I'd want it to be
>> rangefinder-coupled.
>>
>> Also, a Bessa-L with the 15mm lens sounds strangely attractive.
>>
>> I found a few Russian Zorki and Fed on oboy and yeah, they are going
>> cheap. Maybe I could get one just to see what the fuss is about
>> but I
>> don't feel drawn to them like I do to the Bessa.
>>
>> I like the fact the Bessa is NEW. And it'd have to be a black one.
>>
>> And yes Bill, I have thought about an old Bessa 6x9 as well.
>> Sigh...I'm
>> hopeless.
>>
>> I'll let you all know when she arrives, I'm off to talk turkey
>> with Mr.
>> Gandy.
>>
>>
>> Andrew McPhee
>> http://www.dev-stop-fix.com/
>>
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