Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The best deal - hard to say. At one time I would buy almost any photographic trivia as long as the price was under $50. The lowest price quality cameras were from a local photographic shop whose new owner didn't want to mess with equipment, just wanted to run a photo processing business. He sold me a nearly mint Robot Vollautomat with a f2.8 Tessar for $30 and a new Rollei 35SE for $50. But the best deal I ever got was a brand new Leica IIIf with a Summicron 50 mm f2.0 at a London Leica dealer's shop. It cost me $154, delivered as duty free goods to my departing airplane. The year was 1954 and the M3 had just been introduced. Apparently Leica wanted all their dealers to get rid of the LTM cameras and concentrate on the Ms. I still have the camera and the original receipt. Larry Z