Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>>>>>>> Tom A ( Leo). wrote... The famous M3D was a pre-production Leica MP. Duncan had 2 or 3 of these made with the M3 finder and the M2 filmcounter and long driveshaft for the film take up spool as well as the Leicavit MP on them. I have never been able to figure out if his M3D's had the hardened steel gears in them that the regular Leica MP had, or if they had the regular brass gears. David D. Duncan still has these cameras ( he is a very shrewd business man, not only a photographer) and I shudder to think what one of these would bring at a collectors auction. Leica also made a similar camera for Alfred Eisenstadt at Life with the engraving M3E. Ain't Leica Trivia fun! ------------------------------------------------------- I'm surprised the price of famous photographers cameras isn't higher. Ian Berry, the Magnum photographer had his black enamel M2 (+ lens) sold in Christies last year, it made 2000UKP I believe, and Terence Donovan had his M6 and 35mm lens sold for only 1350UKP this year, I really should have bought that and sold my own M6 subsequently. But things happen so fast at an auction, it's not easily done to start bidding over a thousand pounds on a camera you hadn't planned to consider... Jem K