Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I got a tremendous amount of mileage out of the dirt cheap IIc and IIf bodies I bought in New York when I was 15. Two bodies, a 35/3.5 Elmar and a 50/2 Summitar, all beat up and nasty, cost me $100 in 1969. That was the better part of a year's savings. The viewfinders always bugged me, I couldn't see well with them, but I carried them everywhere and took a lot of pictures with them. I doubt the objective quality would stand against the Summicron-M 35/2 ASPH I'm using today, but the pictures were delightful to me then and now. One I lost in Mexico in '76 or so, the other I sold in '81 when I sold the IIIf I'd inherited too. I bought my first M (the M3) then. Go for it, Mike. You'll enjoy an older Leica, I'm sure. Godfrey