Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Karen, Yes, it is real. The Ig was the special purposes version of the IIIg, mainly intended to be used on microscopes, medical and scientific equipment or with a Visoflex. There were also a Post version of this camera, fitted with a fixed focus Summaron 35mm, intended to be used to record telephone meters by german and swiss Telephone companies, a "Repro" version, sold together with the Leitz Reproduktion Apparatus, and a very rare "Special" (aka "Siemens") version without accessory shoes that was provided with the Siemens electron microscope. This last version had two variations, with and without slow speeds (rarest), and minor differences in the advancing knob when compared to the normal production cameras. The chimera of the 'g' series is the IIg, a IIIg without slow speeds, that nobody is sure if was ever produced. Best regards, Ed Albesi www.sololeicas.com Argentina El 31/08/2004, a las 22:48, Karen Nakamura escribi?: > > I've never seen something like this, is it for real? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3836002726 > > It looks too real to be a fake. So it's the Ig (finderless version) of > the IIIg? Didn't Leica have the M1/MD by then? > > Karen > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >