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Originally Posted by andybarton
I had a play with a Mint Reid this afternoon, with a Mint Taylor-Whatsit collapsible 50mm on the front.
What a beautiful thing.
Completely impractical, of course, with those two daft little viewfinder things, and at least one too many speed dials (  ), but a joy to handle and, dare I say it, fondle. The smoothness of the wind-on and the soft click of the shutter were fantastic.
It is my new friend Ivan's personal one that he just has in his display cabinet in the shop and he reckons that these Reids were the very best LTM cameras ever made. |
I part exchanged my Reid and Sigrist II in I would guess 1964 for a Mamiya SLR. I think I got about £12 to £15 for it - ouch. My father bought it secondhand as a birthday present for me in 1959, when I was angling for one of his Leicas. He bought it from Reid's of Haslemere, who claimed to be some relation of Reid of R&S. It was one of the ones with a factory alteration to add two flash sync sockets. At the time an SLR was much sexier than an RF.
Wilson