Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:13 AM 1/11/1999 -0400, Terry Price (Edgecombe-Coles House), you wrote... >One of my favourite pocket cameras is my Retina IIa. Its got a very sharp >coated Schneider f2 50mm lens, mx synch, lever film advance, nice >rangefinder, a 1 to 500 shutter and compact size. It folds nicely and >doesn't need a case. Its a rugged little thing and can still be found for >under $100 in nice shape. <snip> My first "real" camera; I talked my father into buying a IIa from my high school biology teacher. A wonderful camera (leaf shutter, btw) in excellent condition considering it had done duty in Korea. I suppose it's partly my experience of that camera that eventually drew me to my recent acquisition of an M4. I did a lot of close-up work with that camera by building special frames used with +diopter lenses. Eventually, I migrated to an SLR: Exakta VxIIa with, of course, a Schneider f2 lens. Mike "Sing whatever is well made..." - -W. B. Yeats