Re: [Leica] IIIc or IIIf

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Jim-
Factory conversions were done on the IIIc making them IIIf cameras, with the
added synch for flash. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then
consider it a duck! If you are using it, it shouldn't make a whit of
difference.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Ogul <jogul@erols.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IIIc or IIIf


> Greg.Chappell@nationsbank.com wrote:
> >
> > Does it have numbers around the shutter speed dial, or is the area
around
> > the speed dial blank? The IIIF was the first Leica Screw Mount with
factory
> > flash. Those numbers are used to set the flash delay, according to the
type
> > bulb you used. It also has a sync post on the back of the top plate. A
IIIC
> > could be sync'd later by Leica. According to the Leica Bible (pocket
book),
> > as you said, yours is a 1949/50 Leica IIIC. If they sold it to you as a
IIIF
> > and you want a IIIF, I'd take it back. If, however, you don't want to
use
> > flash with it, keep it, as it is a great shooter. Flash sync would only
be
> > 1/50th if it was a IIIF.
> >
> > Greg Chappell
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jogul@erols.com [mailto:jogul@erols.com]
> > Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 6:49 PM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IIIc or IIIf
> >
> > I know this is for users and not collectors, but I have a question about
> > a camera I just bought.  It was sold to me as a IIIf and sure enough
> > thats what it looks like, same knobs etc., but when I look up the serial
> > number which is 483,616 which is listed as a IIIc made in 1949-50. I am
> > mystified by this and thought someone could shed some light on this.
> This does have the numbers around the shutter speed dial.  There is a
> little setting ring that you can move to a given number.  Also there is
> a flash sync jack to the right of the viewfinder on the back.  Could
> this be a IIIc that was modified by the factory to a IIIf?