[Leica] IMG: Mercury II

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks, Lluis.  It was a little before you arrived on the scene. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/3/2015 5:42 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
> Jim
> I’ve never saw this camera before, thanks for sharing!
> Lluis
>
> El 02/07/2015, a les 18.48, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va escriure:
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>> 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.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mercury+II+from+1945.jpg.html
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>> Comments welcomed, and appreciated.
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>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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