[Leica] Friday Flowers SonC

[Jim Nichols]

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

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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA