[Leica] Your first Leica

[Don Dory]

Thank you for speaking up.  Posting is easy on the LUG Gallery and we all
would like to see the world through your eyes.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:27 PM Alice Kroehle via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Two Leicas -
> First was a gift from my aunt, the camera originally belonged to my
> grandfather, who bought a new IIIF BD new in 1951/52.
> The other is an M2 that was inherited from my dad, who bought it used in
> NYC around 1959.  He said he had a IIIC where the shutter broke, and he
> took it in to NYC to have it repaired.  A GI had brought the M2 back from
> Germany after serving in WW2 and didn't understand the metric on the lens
> (it was measured in cm in lieu of inches) and sold it.  My dad was an
> engineering student at the time and the repair for the IIIC was roughly
> equivalent to the cost of the M2.  For him it was a no-brainer.
> I still use both of them.  Not bad for 2 cameras that are 60 - 70 years
> old.
> Still need to post something :(
> Alice Kroehle
>
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