Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:16 PM 7/19/01 EDT, KE7GMx@cs.com wrote: >Hi Guys: I just recently bot a Leica and I' m having a problem in identifying >what it is. Ho about some help from you experts in unraveling this puzzle? >LTM camera w/50mm- f.3.5 Elmar, coated. Has Rangefinder, slow shutter speeds, >neckstrap lugs, infinity focus on rear of ViewFinder Window, engraved, "Leica >(script) D.R.P., Germany, Ernst Leitz Wetzlar", shutter speed dial has >'lobes' on the top O.D. and also on the hub (3 lobes on top and one on Hub), >shutter speed dial has three setscrews, Regular Shutter Speed Dial has "Z" >for time and Slow Speed Dial has "T" for time, no detents on slow speed dial, >finished in "leica" satin chrome; a beautiful job!! >THe camera is almost a mint. The lens mounting flange has a few very small >specks where the chrome finish has "flaked." and the depth of field >engravings and focus distrances on the lens flanges are reversed - distances >are engrsaved on the body flange. >Is this a Leica II that has had slow speeds added, neckstrap lugs and >infinity focus to create a Leica III or IIIA? Or is it a fake Leica? >Your comments would be most welcome. Bill Carson, La Conner It might help if you would post the serial number from the camera, Bill. msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!