Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:33 AM 11/29/97 -0500, Ol' Two-Shoes wrote: > I just acquired an almost new 47 year old Leica lc. > It has no built in range-finder nor view - finder but has > 2 accessory shoes for auxillaries. The leather case > is rarer than the camera & is much taller than normal > to make room for the BL finder & slip-on RF. > I can't imagine why anyone would want something like > this, 47 years ago. Ic's were used with microscopes & > other instruments but why a field package like this? The original Leica was precisely the same -- that is, no VF, no RF. So many folks had gotten used to using auxiliary units in the two accessory shoes. I agree that most of the Ic and later 'stripper' Leicas were sold for industrial, scientific, or technical uses, but there must have been some old-timers about who wanted them for field use, as they were akin to their original Leica of, say, 1925 or 1930. Leica didn't add the inbuilt RF/VF until Zeiss Ikon brought out the Contax I with these features. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!