[Leica] Friday Flowers SonC

[Wayne Torry]

My dad brought a Konica I home from Japan in 1950-1951. A Hexar 50mm f/3.5
lens in a leaf shutter. To this day, the Konica rangefinder is the equal,
or better, of my M5.


On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 11:24 PM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Thanks, great story.  I have several Konica lenses and every time I play, I
> get a reward.
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:05 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Jim Nichols
> > Tullahoma, TN USA
> >
> >
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