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Subject: [Leica] Connie Stevens’ camera, 1959
From: smithjeffery at mac.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:19:10 -0700
References: <0EB4B3CE-82CA-41E7-8F29-F96B40E2BE5B@gmail.com> <CAACyePwWbjHaMQ2GZEt-gScvfj51+6+KjM86zg8fQPZs6pgKPA@mail.gmail.com> <015401d84da4$cad87bb0$60897310$@judgecrater.com> <CAACyePzrY_-KaHiwCbtOF3oOXMzThOE-3z=6tWbzwq8uszOWvA@mail.gmail.com>

The SP has that gigantic viewfinder window. The S2 and S3 have smaller 
windows. Sadly, not that much easier to focus.

> On Apr 11, 2022, at 6:38 PM, Wayne Torry via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> You have looked on a big monitor.
> I?ve owned mostly Canon rangefinders from that vintage.
> I didn?t recognize the Nikon.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 9:05 AM <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote:
> 
>> Nikon SP (introduced 1957) with 5CM Nikkor 1.4.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: LUG <lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org> On 
>> Behalf
>> Of Wayne Torry via LUG
>> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 8:55 AM
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Cc: Wayne Torry <papatorry46 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Connie Stevens? camera, 1959
>> 
>> Online Canon Museum should know.
>> Wayne
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:40 PM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at 
>> leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> During my recovery from hip surgery, I?ve been watching a lot of old TV.
>>> I?ve particularly enjoyed a series called "Hawaiian Eye," about a pair
>>> of private detectives in Honolulu c. 1959-63. One of the sidekick
>>> characters is  "Cricket" Blake (played by Connie Stevens), a lounge
>>> singer who is also a photographer. She is shown here in the opening
>>> credits with what appears to be a Canon rangefinder. Can anyone
>>> identify the model? Note that the clip is from 1959, two years too early
>> for the Canon 7.
>>> 
>>> <
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/428B6DCA-328A-4FA9-B83D-F
>>> 4FFACD0619E.png.html
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> --Peter
>>> 
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