Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V19 #55
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:23:09 -0500

>> - -----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
>
I had a hand-me-down Petri rangefinder from my Father in the early '60's
when he moved up to a Miranda SLR. Great camera (the Petri).

Steve
Annapolis