Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:21 AM 1/28/98 +0100, Christoph Blau wrote: > >Wow, I am a lucky man: My father gave me his fathers camera, which has been >his user camera for approximately 30 years. >I sent it to Leica Solms to put it in working condition again, since I want to >use it - perhaps with an adapted current 2.8/50 lens. > >I would like to know, when it was made. It has the serial number 13916. (Not a >very high number! Oh boys, I am so proud of it). It has a screw mount 3.5/50 >Elmar, no viewfinder. So it is probably a Standard. 13916 would be a Leica A (Model I) dating from 1929, one of 16,367 manufactured that year. I did not realize that Leica would repair an LTM camera. I had thought that Leitz ceased this in 1980. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!