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Subject: [Leica] Connie Stevens’ camera, 1959
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:49:20 -0500
References: <0EB4B3CE-82CA-41E7-8F29-F96B40E2BE5B@gmail.com> <CAACyePwWbjHaMQ2GZEt-gScvfj51+6+KjM86zg8fQPZs6pgKPA@mail.gmail.com> <015401d84da4$cad87bb0$60897310$@judgecrater.com> <CAACyePzrY_-KaHiwCbtOF3oOXMzThOE-3z=6tWbzwq8uszOWvA@mail.gmail.com> <99994DB1-AFA9-42D0-8148-1F94A4F069EB@mac.com>

There is a little wheel above the viewfinder of the Nikon that is used to
move the lens into focus but after testing that and a Leica M3, each with a
complement of lenses (this was circa 1960 while I worked in a camera store)
I decided on the Leica and never looked back.

I was the only kid in my high school class with an M3!

--Bob

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:19 PM Jeffery Smith via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
wrote:

> The SP has that gigantic viewfinder window. The S2 and S3 have smaller
> windows. Sadly, not that much easier to focus.
>
> > On Apr 11, 2022, at 6:38 PM, Wayne Torry via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > You have looked on a big monitor.
> > I?ve owned mostly Canon rangefinders from that vintage.
> > I didn?t recognize the Nikon.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 9:05 AM <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Nikon SP (introduced 1957) with 5CM Nikkor 1.4.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: LUG <lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org> On
> Behalf
> >> Of Wayne Torry via LUG
> >> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 8:55 AM
> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >> Cc: Wayne Torry <papatorry46 at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Connie Stevens? camera, 1959
> >>
> >> Online Canon Museum should know.
> >> Wayne
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:40 PM Peter Klein via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> During my recovery from hip surgery, I?ve been watching a lot of old
> TV.
> >>> I?ve particularly enjoyed a series called "Hawaiian Eye," about a pair
> >>> of private detectives in Honolulu c. 1959-63. One of the sidekick
> >>> characters is  "Cricket" Blake (played by Connie Stevens), a lounge
> >>> singer who is also a photographer. She is shown here in the opening
> >>> credits with what appears to be a Canon rangefinder. Can anyone
> >>> identify the model? Note that the clip is from 1959, two years too
> early
> >> for the Canon 7.
> >>>
> >>> <
> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/428B6DCA-328A-4FA9-B83D-F
> >>> 4FFACD0619E.png.html
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> --Peter
> >>>
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