Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's a 1954 IIF with self timer made in a bath of 16,000. Rather common, but it should have red syncro numbers. Could they have been darkened with wear or age? I didn't think that Black Dial IIIF's were made with self timers. Am I right? Skip At 9/30/99 08:20 AM -0700, you wrote: >I am truying to identify an old Leica I have had for several years. It >was made ar Wetzlar, ser. #725 xxx. It looks much like the IIIf I saw a >photo on a web site, but it has the self timer inverted (the knob ponts >down) and has black sychro numbers - is this a variation on the IIIf, >common or rare? > >Thanks - > >Bill > >P.S. I hope it's ok for me to have and use this lovely little German >camera, since don't drink any kind of ale, stout, or beer, don't drive a >Porsche (though I used to be a pretty decent Porsche mechanic) and my >only hat is a nondescipt and nameless khaki fisherman's roll-up ;-) > - ----------------------------------------------- Skip Williams Westfield, NJ skipwilliams@pobox.com - -----------------------------------------------