Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/04

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Gear I wish I'd kept
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Wed Jul 4 10:09:32 2007
References: <200707041221.l64CKjxT047539@server1.waverley.reid.org> <202D7191-D579-4AA8-9D68-91A1C7547A9D@optonline.net>

At 10:53 AM 7/4/2007, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
 >
 >Contax 1. A beast of a camera, heavy, unergonomic, unreliable. But
 >great in a collection to contrast with a Leica. (Traded for a prewar
 >Leica IIIc with Summitar.)
 >Leica IIIc with Summitar (above). Used on honeymoon in the Jurassic
 >era. My wife and I are still married. The camera was stolen.

Larry

A minor quibble.  There were no Prewarr IIIc's as 
the camera was introduced only after the outbreak of the Second World War.

Marc


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Replies: Reply from tomschofield at comcast.net (Tom Schofield) ([Leica] Re: Gear I wish I'd kept)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Gear I wish I'd kept)