[Leica] Best camera deal you (personally) have ever gotten.......

[amr3 at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)]

>On Feb 15, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Frank Filippone wrote:
>
>> OK... Out of the closet.....   Let's hear about the most outrageous
>> deal you have ever gotten on a camera or lens.
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Camera:
When I was a student in 1972, before I could afford even a used Leica,
another kid offered me a Konica III with inoperable leaf shutter for
$10.00. Since I was desperate to have some sort of RF camera, I bought it,
figuring I might be able to get it working.  Well I did - that night.  It
looked to me like the blades were stuck with grease, so I unscrewed the
front group of lens elements and applied lighter fluid to the shutter.
After a while it freed up and I had a user.  It would gum up again after a
few weeks, but I would just give it another shot of fluid.

I took my all-time best selling picture with this camera:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Signs+1_AMR.jpg.html>

It has a really sharp 48mm f/2 Hexanon lens.  The ads in the 1950's
said,"The lens alone is worth the price." ($119.00)  They weren't kidding.
I still have it.

Lens:
I bought my 9-1/2" Wollensak Verito Diffused Focus lens in 1985 for $12.50
(twelve dollars and fifty cents!) at the biggest camera store in Milwaukee.
It had a tag on it that said, "Paperweight?", but I knew what kind of lens
it was, and that it was just what I'd been looking for.  In the same
transaction, also for $12.50, I picked up a French-made, brass focusing
loupe, ca. 1920"s?

Verito:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Francisco_AMR.jp
g.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work+Pix/Titania_amp_Obero
n_AMR.jpg.html>


Alan


Alan Magayne-Roshak
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