[Leica] IMG: Some shiny stuff for the glass cabinet

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

A nice haul Douglas.

I have a Retina IIIc with the same lens set.  You're right, too 
fiddly... I've only used the camera, lenses are still sitting on a shelf.

Jim

Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Hello all, another bout of collectivitis!
> I shouldn't have left the house today!!
> 50 Euros poorer, but a couple of rather nice shiny (but still very 
> dusty) additions to my display cabinet.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_7614.jpg.html
> A Voigtl?nder VITO IIa - some tiny patches of rust and the film 
> indicator on the rewind knob is unreadable, but everything inside and 
> out works as it should
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_7613.jpg.html
> Voigtl?nder VITO CLR - the cheaper version with a Lanthar 2.8/50mm - the 
> meter and everything else works, only the paint on the side of the meter 
> wondow on top is rubbed off.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_7612.jpg.html
> 
> The most expensive part: 30 Euros altogether, including a leather case.
> An almost like new Kodak Retina IIIc - the meter works too, shown here 
> with the finder for the accessory lenses, the bakelite lens shade and 
> the accessory lenses were part of the deal too
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_7611.jpg.html
> 
> The accessory lenses - still in their plastic keepers, look as if 
> they've never been used (which is understandable, it's a terribly fiddly 
> business involving acertaining the distance with the RF, noting the 
> setting for the standard lens and then transferring it to another scale 
> at the bottom of the focusing ring)
> 
> I even bought some film to put them through their paces.
> 
> Cheers from a rather happy Douglas in Hannover
> 
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