Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Best deals
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Fri Feb 16 09:52:27 2007
References: <200702161736.l1GHaELn029796@server1.waverley.reid.org>

On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:36 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> A Retina IIIC (large C) for $5 at a tag sale.  It was labeled  
> "broken",
> since it wouldn't advance.  I paid the five bucks, went outside,  
> pushed in
> the clutch, advanced the frame counter, and it worked perfectly  
> from that
> time onward.
>
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
> Who then proceeded to lose his $5 Retina IIIC in a taxi about five  
> years
> later...


My research assistant once found a black Leica M4 in a NYC taxi.  
Could your Retina have metamosphosized into a Leica?

Larry Z