[Leica] Camera Porn

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Sonny,
I had a Leica M3 by 1965, long before I acquired one of the IIIFs (the
second was a pristine complete set I purchased from Luis a decade or so
ago), but I sold that, with three lenses, when I went digital, because, at
that time, 20 or so years ago, that was the only bit of kit that had any
monetary value! 🥴

Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> We had similar paths, Leica IIIf, Rollei, and Nikon F and F2.  My first 35
> was an Agfa Silette SLE.  I was fifteen when I bought it at the Base
> Exchange at Rhein Main AFB.    It cost something like $250, and that was a
> fortune earned by endless weekend and summer hours at a hotel restaurant on
> base.  I still have it and it works, with not a bit of rust.
>
> Regards,
> Sonny
> www.SonC.Com/Look
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>
> > I was idling away my time photographing the few film cameras I still have
> > with me as a record as they are all taking turns on going for a CLA -
> which
> > entails a six month round trip to Asit Latif at Kolkata. All but two of
> my
> > hoard are here. The missing ones are a Mamiya 645E and a Canon VI,
> because
> > the former is with my son, and the latter is with Asif. Somehow, I cannot
> > bring myself to sell them, as they are such beautiful examples of
> > mechanical perfection. These are just record shots with no pretense at
> > perfection:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/OddsAndEnds/Cameras/
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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