Want to Buy WTB: bessa r2/maybe minolta CL

[ColdEye]

Looking for a bessa r2 and it's variants or a minolta cl/cle. Need a body for my single M lens. Cosmetics are not important as long as it works. Pm me with details and offers. Thank you.

 

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[vpwphoto]

Get the Bessarabia, CL broke my heart twice before and after expensive expert shutter servicing. I traded it on a ShenHao, so it’s likely out ther waiting to break another photographer’s heart. I’m typing here where hanging above me are some of my best photographs made with that CL and the 90mm M elmar ... saved the one shot of my son’s footprints by a crop and heavy burn to even out the dragging shutter...theses are before photos.. it let me down a number of months later post CLA in the snow... fleeting images of my kids’ snowy fun...

 

[vpwphoto]

Oh I had a Bessa kit too... decent stuff, I used it with an RD1.... when that went wonky, I sold it all.

I recently got a Leica iI and another 90mm Elmar.. that’s such a great lens. My 50 is a Canon Sernar as Crons that Do or Don't affect image quality are too spendy... those Voitlander screw and M lenses are well made and perform well too. Cheers