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Old 01/17/07, 05:07 AM   #10 (permalink)
Gordon Coale
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Default Re: LTM users, its time to stand up and be counted!

I have a sharkskin IIIc from 1949. My Grandfather gave it to me back in the 1970s. (Some pictures of my grandfather with the Leica.) The shutter acted up in the late 1970s and it sat on a shelf for 27 years. I took it off the shelf a couple of years ago to find that the shutter curtains now also had pinholes. But shooting that test roll was a revelation. I had forgotten. A year ago it had a CLA and new shutter curtains and is as a sweet a shooter as I could want. The Summitar still needs a CLA and haze removal. That's next.

I've been wanting a Leica Standard. They are so elemental, but way beyond my budget, so I bought a former Soviet Union Zorki 1 with a bad rangefinder and am turning it into a Zorki Standard. It has a 35/2.8 Jupiter 12 and an Industar 50/3.5 Elmar clone. There is a thread over at the Rangefinder Forum covering that project.
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