Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 98-01-21 06:19:36 EST, you write: << . This summer I was in Prague, and there was a shop full of LTM-bodies with all kinds of "Luftwaffe" and "photo reporter" engravings, golden and silver, shining new top plates. Of course they were all Russian copies, but someone obviously has started producing top plates for these Zorkys and FEDs. >> The cameras that you've seen in Prague, (and that have spread like plague all over the world) don't necessarily use new top plates. It's not difficult to mill the existing top plate down if it's to be painted or replated. The question is, what will these cameras (and worse, like the plethora of fake 250s to come out of Warsaw) do to the value of Leica equipment? Burt Rubin