Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you for speaking up. Posting is easy on the LUG Gallery and we all would like to see the world through your eyes. On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:27 PM Alice Kroehle via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Two Leicas - > First was a gift from my aunt, the camera originally belonged to my > grandfather, who bought a new IIIF BD new in 1951/52. > The other is an M2 that was inherited from my dad, who bought it used in > NYC around 1959. He said he had a IIIC where the shutter broke, and he > took it in to NYC to have it repaired. A GI had brought the M2 back from > Germany after serving in WW2 and didn't understand the metric on the lens > (it was measured in cm in lieu of inches) and sold it. My dad was an > engineering student at the time and the repair for the IIIC was roughly > equivalent to the cost of the M2. For him it was a no-brainer. > I still use both of them. Not bad for 2 cameras that are 60 - 70 years > old. > Still need to post something :( > Alice Kroehle > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com