Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Simon, I have one of these and I like it very much... It is an old black paint SLMot around the same number as the one you're describing. Mine is not mint, it's really used up but works fine...It still has a very nice finish but the exposure meter is not dead on... I really don't know if they're rare or not, I know another one which is actually for sale in paris, much better than mine for roughly $600. All the best, Thib. At 12:18 02/11/99 -0000, you wrote: >In case this is of interest to anyone... >Ffordes Photographic in England have a black paint SL MOT #1262762 which I >have come _this_ close to buying this morning. In the end I picked up my >M2 with the Viso III and asked myself what I needed another, heavy, camera >body for. But I'm still wavering. >I found the following information in the LUG archives. 1262762 is an SL >number from 1970 - regular SL MOT production (mostly black chrome, with a >few silver chrome, totalling 980) started at #1336991 in 1972. Apparently >there were a few SL MOT's made before 1972, finished in black paint. It >seems that no-one can put an exact number on the black paint SL MOT's, but >it is likely to be a very small one. >The camera is listed in exc++ condition (which squares with the description >that I was given over the phone) for 695 UK pounds. This is definitely >not a steal, but it is probably a fair price for a beautiful, interesting, >very useable and very collectable camera. >Whilst I was trawling the LUG archives I read several eulogies of the SL - >and writing this I am still very tempted ... but I think I will stay with >my M's and Viso. If anyone is interested in the camera, Ffordes Leica >stock is listed on the web at http://www.ffordes.co.uk/prices/s-leica.htm - >contact details are on the site. >Simon, >London. > >