Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:43 PM 11/8/01 -0800, Feliciano di Giorgio wrote: >Didn't Leica make special "Kalt" versions of LTM cameras (IIIc?) for use >on the >Eastern Front during the war? I thought the changes to the ball bearings >were >carried over in to the regular production models, like the IIIf. I'm >guessing >you would still have to change the luricants though. The modifications to the IIIc were mandated NOT by the conditions on the Eastern Front but from the conditions in northern Norway but the results were the same, the addition of ball-bearing races to the shutter curtain rollers in place of the earlier pin-bearings. These cameras were called "K" cameras -- for 'kugellager', or ball-bearings -- and most are so marked behind the serial number. Zeiss Ikon also cold-proofed Contax cameras but did so by removing lubricants and loosening tolerances. Many cameras so treated were marked internally with a painted "k" but, in this case, it stood for "kaltfest", or 'cold-proofed'. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html