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Martyn's Lens collection to be sold.
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i wish i lived up the street from you right now!!


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Shocked Shocked Wow,Good on you for helping out and taking on the job of sorting and photographing these.


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Writing only to subscribe, I'm interested too.
Thanks,


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DM sent. I hate to seem like a thirst bucket but... dibs on the silvers! i called it first! lol.


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any nikkors in there? Laughing


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Martyn - that's a really incredible pile of lenses!. It is obvious that you put a lot of passion and a lot of yourself in amassing such a collection. And kudos to steve for agreeing to make sure they find good homes - it will be quite a task. For me, a big part of the fun of collecting and using classic lenses is knowing that there are people out there who appreciate the same things I do. Goodness knows there are enough people who think I'm nuts!!!! Shocked

-Paul


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Incredible. Just to make a list of the lenses is a huge undertaking.


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so whats going on with this?


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Well, don't know why, but something in this thread caught my attention Shocked ...

Posting just to be sure to continuing reading Wink ...


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The silence is deafening.


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Be patient. I assume they are working very hard right now preparing lists etc.


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Steffie wrote:
Be patient. I assume they are working very hard right now preparing lists etc.


Exactly.


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any update?


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Thats a huge mass of glass! And I thought I was bad with about 100 lenses....


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Shocked
That's a glass collection!


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Bumping carefully.


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Without wishing to pressurise Steve, he has told me he is 'almost finished' with the list, bless him. Sorry Steve, had to say something! You are doing such a tremendous job.

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I wonder what happened to this lot. Why am I suspicious?


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I sometimes wonder what happened to Mal's collection.


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Indeed .....

And did anybody ever see a list ??


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Mir wrote:
Indeed .....

And did anybody ever see a list ??


I vaguely remember there being a list, or part of a complete list of sorts at one time. From memory there wasn't anything of any great value on it.


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Used the forum Search (top of page) for "martyn"; found http://forum.mflenses.com/martyns-lens-t61339.html with list...


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Most amazing to me is that nine years have already passed.


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It was my fault he got into this! We worked together for a while and ended up having a discussion about quality of results from various kit. I had a 5D and a bunch of MF lenses, Martyn had a Fuji superzoom (HS10 I think) and another colleague had a Nikon D3s with some rather expensive zooms.

Needless to say, he became interested in some of the lenses I owned (and the cost Very Happy) and off he went. He had a lovely young daughter who must be about 18 now, incredible.