Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny, that Konica glass sure paints a beautiful picture.? Thanks for sharing it with us. That brought to mind the first time I ever saw a Konica camera. Shortly after I was released by the USAF in 1953, I was visiting my father-in-law in his combination JP office/ photo studio.? As JP, he? interacted with the local MS Highway Patrol officers.? One of the officers had picked up seabag on the side of a highway where some sailor had misplaced it, and it contained a corroded rangefinder camera.? He dropped it off with Herb to see if was worth anything.? They concluded it wasn't worth pursuing and I later picked it up to see what it was like.? I was shooting a Leica IIIa at the time. It turned out that it was a Konica rangefinder with a Japanese imitation of a Compur shutter, and the body had been corroded by seawater.? However, the rangefinder was functional, and far surpassed the Leica RF.? I had never seen a Leica M, and don't know when they appeared, but the few pictures I coaxed out of the old Konica really surprised me. On 6/4/20 9:04 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote: > Still with the day lillies in our front garden. Today I was playing with > one of Kathy?s Father?s vintage Konica zooms. It wrote a pretty image > with a little bit of a glow. I think I was out to about 200 mm. Hope you > like it. > > https://sonc.com/look/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DSC4900-ed-web.jpg > > SonC -- Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA