Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Where is Albania? - - Balkan, yep - - Middle East, nope! - - Africa, nope! - - Europe, yep regards Jean (from good old E*****) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Cc: <rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 7:19 PM Subject: [Leica] Oldies (ads in magazines) > My wife and I hate sitting around the house, so today we headed out to the > flea markets. They're run by Albanians, refugees from Balkan, Middle East, > Africa, you name it. They do NOT want you pointing cameras at them. They > sell junk and drive Mercedes and BMW, go figure. > > Anyway, I picked up some photography magazines from the 40'ies and 50'ies. > Just for the fun of it I scanned in some ads. They're in Swedish, but the > texts aren't that inspiring anyway. > > I did find one text hilarious. It was a review of the M3 ... pointing out > how Leica cameras really hadn't changed that much from the very inception. > Kind of thought of BD who points out the M6 is an M3 with a meter :) > > Anyway ... Leica and Rollei ads: > > M3 and IIIf (the IIIf being billed as the leica for hobbyists ... "that's > why it even has a self-timer now.") > > http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/m3iiif.jpg > > Just the M3: > > http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/m3.jpg > > Lenses (even the Thambar, I think): > > http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/leicalenses.jpg > > Rollei 25 year anniversary > > http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/rollei25years.jpg > > Rollei "E" models: > > http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/rollei28e.jpg > > My darling, the Rolleicord V: > > http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/rolleicord5.jpg > > Mostly from 1954 - 1957. > > In 1961 you could by a new M2 + 50 Elmar 2.8 for just over 1000 Swedish > crowns. (There are a little over 8 crowns to the USD). You could pay 15 > dollars down and the rest in installments for 6 months. The magazine cost > 2.50 SEK back then and 38 SEK today. > > Just some trivia, > Daniel > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html