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Originally Posted by earleygallery
Now that we have this excellent new section on the forum lets have a head count of current LTM or screw camera owners/users.
I have a lllf red dial model (well two if I count the broken one which I will get repaired one day). This was my first Leica which I bought in 1982 when I was 16.
It had a spell of inactivity mainly due to the very soft images from the Summar lens it had - which was also rather foggy. Then along came the VC lenses and I started using it for street photography with the 25mm Skopar.
After that I bought a 5cm Elmar, the lens I always wanted for it and I was very pleasantly surprised with the first roll I shot - the images were so sharp and this was with a '42 vintage lens. Now I'm using the lllf more than ever and have just bought some more Elmar glass for it.
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My head has been already counted but... to be precise, I have also a IIc besides the IIIf I quoted; I prefer to use the IIIf. LTM gear is often fascinating by itself: as an example, during the years I put together a small collection of ONE lens : the Elmar 90 f4 : 7 pieces all significantly different each to other:
- "Fat"
- "All black"
- "All chrome"
- "Vulkan and chrome wide front rim"
- Ditto, "narrow front rim"
- "E-39 filter"
- "3-elements"
- Plus the "collapsible"...bayonet mount of course... and the Elmar C 90 for CL.
Would like to post a pcture of this set... I wait to have the M8 to have a file directly generated for attach... would consider offensive take such a picture with a 3 Mpixel HP...