Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] IIIa find / 50 Summar question
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:36:57 -0800

>Just wandered over to my friendly neighborhood hole-in-the-wall camera
>shop, and lo! Tom had (for him) a staggering amount of Leica stuff.  While
>perusing the gear, I noticed a nice-looking III-series.
>On closer inspection, it turned out to be a IIIa (vintage 1938, per the
>list at Stephen Gandy's site).  Very clean, though it looks as though the
>vulcanite may have been replaced.  Reasonably bright RF, sounded good at
>all speeds - like it has recently been gone over.  Bought it with a pretty
>clean 50 Summar, never-ready case, and sync baseplate for the grand sum of
>$250.
>What I've run into is that the lens is calibrated in the old
>"international" stops - 2, 2.2, 3.2, 4.5, 6.3, 9, 12.5 - what does this
>translate to in the current system?  I haven't been able to find a table
>of equivalencies.
>Thanks,
>C. L. Basso, K.C.S., M.Sc.


C.L.,

Try here:

http://www.ozdoba.net/leica/leica_altezeit_e.html

All will be revealed.

Guy
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