Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, great story. I have several Konica lenses and every time I play, I get a reward. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:05 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > Sonny, that Konica glass sure paints a beautiful picture. Thanks for > sharing it with us. > > That brought to mind the first time I ever saw a Konica camera. Shortly > after I was released by the USAF in 1953, I was visiting my > father-in-law in his combination JP office/ photo studio. As JP, he > interacted with the local MS Highway Patrol officers. One of the > officers had picked up seabag on the side of a highway where some sailor > had misplaced it, and it contained a corroded rangefinder camera. He > dropped it off with Herb to see if was worth anything. They concluded > it wasn't worth pursuing and I later picked it up to see what it was > like. I was shooting a Leica IIIa at the time. > > It turned out that it was a Konica rangefinder with a Japanese imitation > of a Compur shutter, and the body had been corroded by seawater. > However, the rangefinder was functional, and far surpassed the Leica > RF. I had never seen a Leica M, and don't know when they appeared, but > the few pictures I coaxed out of the old Konica really surprised me. > > On 6/4/20 9:04 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote: > > Still with the day lillies in our front garden. Today I was playing with > > one of Kathy?s Father?s vintage Konica zooms. It wrote a pretty image > > with a little bit of a glow. I think I was out to about 200 mm. Hope > you > > like it. > > > > https://sonc.com/look/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DSC4900-ed-web.jpg > > > > SonC > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA