Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:14 PM 1999-02-12 +0000, Alex Hurst wrote: >They may not be now, but a company called Reid made quite a respectable >rip-off of a screwmount Leica back in the 1950s - I think it was modelled >on the IIIf. It was a copy of the III, and actually dates to the early 1940's -- the Reid wasn't a "rip-off", as Reid was licensed by the British Government (which had seized the British patent rights from Ernst Leitz UK at the outbreak of the War). A nice camera. There are a large slew of British LTM lenses made by TTH, Wray, Ross, and others, as well as a single offering, the Trinol, by Stewartry, to my knowledge the ONLY Scottish LTM lens -- well, actually, it is a National Optical lens made in the UK, but adapted to LTM by Stewartry. My Trinol came to live with me courtesy of another LUG member to whom I will be ETERNALLY grateful! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!