Thanks !
>
> That's the beast. Better pix here on Steve Gandy's site but
> no samples - http://www.cameraquest.com/zoomar13.htm
> Truly weird object. John's is in much better condition than that
> Chinese one on the Contax.
> It's in Melbourne - the owner of pro-photog store Camera Exchange,
> one John Corneille has owned one for about ten years and it was
> stolen around five years ago when the shop was broken into. He just
> recovered it - someone put it on Aus, Ebay. The seller claimed that
> he'd picked it up in a market for a couple of hundred, put it aside
> thinking it might make an astronomy project and then years later
> decided to sell. John bought it back at less than the ask of
> $400. 15lb? It felt like more than that. Seriously unwieldy, a real
> monster. It's wearing an EOS adapter at present. John clams that it
> is soft but then he is a large format lover and Leica dealer so he's
> a bit obsessive. (He's the local Voigt. dealer too). He also claims
> that it's not a true f1.3 - the physics are wrong. He suggests a
> total production in a single run of around 30 units and that
> t didn't
> really measure up to their specs. It is technically for sale at AU
> $9,000 but I don't think he'd go through with it.
> Andrew Fildes
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