Cesar wrote:
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This is a 1950 Leica IIIf with a 1950 Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Summitar
f=5cm 1:2.
1950 ... a black dial IIIf. Very sweet old camera. Enjoy it!
I bought a pair of these cameras, a IIf and IIc with Elmar 3.5cm and
5.0cm f/3.5 lenses, from Olden Camera in 1969 for $99, used them
until about 1985 or so when the last one was lost over the Pacific.
They were delightful old cameras. I inherited my father's IIIf kit
too, but ultimately sold it to a collector as I didn't want to see it
become worn with use (he treated it as a sacred object: it was as
immaculate in 1982 as it was in 1953).
He asked if I was a photographer and then asked if the camera
around my neck was a Leica. He also asked if I was there for PMA.
He smiled wished me a good day and then went away smiling. Would
this have happened with only a Pentax around my neck? How about a
Nikon or Canon?
Sometimes. I've had people go away smiling when I carried an old
Nikon F or Canon FTb too.
Godfrey
