Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sitting at home in more or less confinement, I started looking through my images for ones that seemed significant.? This one caught my eye. It was taken about 13 years ago, but has much more history.? I began to get the photography bug in 1951, but could only afford a Kodak Brownie. As a young USAF Lt. with a wife to support, new photo gear was a dream.? I spent some of my free time in Trader Horn's used camera area of the Salem Camera Shop near our apartment in Dayton, Ohio, watching for a buying opportunity.? I finally found a used Leica IIIa with a new focal plane shutter and a coated Elmar 50/3.5 lens that I couldn't resist.? Researching the serial number told me it probably started life around 1934 as a Leica III, and was later factory converted to a IIIa with the addition of a top shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second. This camera introduced me to a life-long hobby that has taken me through a number of cameras and systems, but, the quality of its images? was first class.? The early images are just as sharp as the ones I make today. http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210126-2006_0219LeicaIIIa0003small.JPG.html Polished up in Lightroom and Photoshop. -- Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA