Hell of a bargain! ..... supposed to be similar to the M100 f/2.8
in performance terms.

I never got round to owning one, but in the film days a 135mm
was far too flat for head and shoulder portraits printed any
bigger than postcard size. I always imagined that the 120mm
would be better.

Super colours, especially the 1st church and the half built
building, which to me looks like they are still molishing
not de-molishing

It's OK I think they are only joking you can keep all your lenses

I'm hiding all mine just in case

You must know of the bass player Johnny Gustafson later with Roxy Music etc.


He might be interested in this site which has another 11/12 home recordings
on it.... quite decent quality as well. link

The guitarist (Brian Griffiths) in one of the best Liverpool live bands
in the 60's (The Big Three) played nothing other than Hofners and he
played them brilliantly. He's shown playing a Colorama on the front
of the EP this tunes from, and it was probably the quitar used on
the live recording. He used to play lead and rythmn at
the same time :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcu9XHcNxjE

This is a later acoustic tune by him unlikely to be on a Hofner
but quite nice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzT0C5LAOso

I remember Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) once saying on the radio that
he'd gone into a studio, just after Eric Clapton had used it and that
the great man had left his Fender and amp set up with all the knobs
on guitar amp and pedals at his favourite positions. Dave Stewart said to
himself "Dare I.... I'll never get the chance again.... Sod it
I'll have to have a go! " so he picked up the guitar and had a play
and then he said to the radio interviewer "You know.... I didn't sound
a bit like him!"

Should be good!

Repeated 2:30am Fri. morning BBC4

In recent times the Uke was made popular by people likes
George Harrison who carried several around with him in the
car boot and used to leave them at peoples houses so that
they would be there when needed. Joe Brown also uses the
Uke a lot.

Are you still on about CATS!

A lot of them are useless..... cement problem

This is a top lens and if the optics are perfect £50 is a steal

I've got a slightly dodgy one, seems to be the cement