Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I?ve got one of those the shutter locked up very soon after I got it I love all the ?excessive" controls and charts?it looks like a steampunk creation ric > On Jul 2, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > wrote: > > Some of you might be able to recall, as I do, street photographers who > snapped your photo on city sidewalks and then offered to sell you copies > of the image. Their favorite camera was the Universal Mercury, introduced > in 1938, or the Mercury II, introduced in 1945. A half-frame camera with a > rotary cinema-type shutter, it produced 72 images on a 36-exposure roll of > 35mm film. This was a very rugged camera with a cast aluminum body and an > extremely sharp Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens, requiring manual scale focusing > with no rangefinder. When properly focused, the image detail was > equivalent to much more expensive cameras of that era. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mercury+II+from+1945.jpg.html > > Comments welcomed, and appreciated. > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information