[Leica] IMG: Mercury II

[Douglas Barry]

I think I'm down to about fifty cameras, Jim, and am controlling my 
acquisition urges, but seeing this, it kind of makes me hanker :-)

That said I'm putting my little used from new Kiev 60TTL up for sale. It 
still has it's original box, but has to go.

Amazingly enough, it has its own unboxing video on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW454zN2BdU

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" 
<olympus at thomasclausen.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 5:48 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Mercury II


> Some of you might be able to recall, as I do, street photographers who 
> snapped your photo on city sidewalks and then offered to sell you copies 
> of the image.  Their favorite camera was the Universal Mercury, introduced 
> in 1938, or the Mercury II, introduced in 1945. A half-frame camera with a 
> rotary cinema-type shutter, it produced 72 images on a 36-exposure roll of 
> 35mm film.  This was a very rugged camera with a cast aluminum body and an 
> extremely sharp Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens, requiring manual scale focusing 
> with no rangefinder.  When properly focused, the image detail was 
> equivalent to much more expensive cameras of that era.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mercury+II+from+1945.jpg.html
>
> Comments welcomed, and appreciated.
>
> -- 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
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