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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: DS to SS
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:47:42 -0800
References: <3.0.6.32.20010205142003.00af1c90@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com> <Pine.SOL.4.10.10102051800230.16731-100000@qix.gpcc.itd.umi ch.edu> <3.0.6.32.20010205183810.00b14d90@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com> <20010205223802.D21234@gabbahey.zippyland.com> <002e01c08ffa$50e2a300$ba2664d8@gary>
Gary Todoroff wrote:
>
> I just found a DS a couple weeks ago. It was bought new in West Berlin in
> 1954, number 700721, so probably production from the first month or two of
> the then brand new M3. There really is something special about the smooth
> winder stroke, and the shutter is the most quiet I have ever heard on an M.
> The collapsible Summicron 50 has a serial number from 1954, so it is really
> a sweet set-up, all in close to mint- condition.
>
><Snip>
I read that the workers in the factory all voted it the best camera they every
made. The one they would want.
This was about 15 years ago.
markrabiner
In reply to:
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Min. focus accuracy of Leica lenses and the Hexar RF)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Min. focus accuracy of Leica lenses and the Hexar RF)
Message from Jeff Moore <jbm4@mindspring.com> ([Leica] DS to SS)
Message from "Gary Todoroff" <datamaster@humboldt1.com> ([Leica] Re: DS to SS)