Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> - -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Brick [SMTP:jim_brick@agilent.com] > Sent: 22 January 2001 23:04 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Re: Yasuhara T-981 > A couple of years ago, after hearing about the Yasuhara T-98......I commented about how it was probably going to be equal to a Petri purchased at a military PX......... > ps... Petri's, however, did work. > Yes, Petri rangefinder with f1.9 lens was a good camera. Cost me $35.00 in the Seoul Korea PX in 1958. A Signal Corps PR Sergeant taught me how to use the camera and how to develop 'n process the army issue Tri-X. (320 ASA). Everything was free, 'cept the camera. I photographed damn near every chance I got, bars, NCO club, alleys, brothels, ships, planes, sea-sick solders on a troop transport, and Koreans. I remember the Korean school teenagers were eager to learn about America. All of the photographs and negatives were lost over 30 years ago. But I remember that Petri camera......it kept a 19 year kid from becoming a drunken bum in a god forsaken place. BTW, years later, late 60's, I was gonna purchase another Petri, until a friend suggested that I buy a used Leica III-c, with Summicron 2.0, for $100.00. I did, and I never looked back. Edward Birch....M-6 'n a couple of M-3's. edwbirch@home.com