LTM users, its time to stand up and be counted!

[Philippe D.]

Hello,
i'm using from time to time
IIIf red dials in MBROO
IIIf black dials w. Leicavit
Summarit, Summar, Summicron "yellow" w. SBOOI
Summaron 3,5cm f/3.5 w. SBLOO
Elmar 9cm f/4 w. SGVOO
Serenar 28mm f/3.5 w. Canon viewer

[robert_parker]

These cameras are great fun ...you just have to remember to focus,,,,

I've got a IIIf Red Dial (no d/a) due for a CLA and what I fear is an unused IIIg that I found in the Collins Collection, some time ago.

I've got the 21mm VC and 5cm Red Scale Elmar, also a 50mm Summicron from about 1962 and one of the millenium 50mm Summilux

This is one of my more art-y shots with the 21mmVC and IIIf Red Dial

Crash 2a.jpg

[thomasw_]

Originally Posted by nealf

Thomas,

If that's a picture of your III, it's not a IIIc, it is most likely a IIIa or if the top shutter speed is 1/500 a III

NF

A
IIIa
IIIb
IIIc/f
IIIg

hehe, i selected the wrong file when i uploaded... :/

here's my IIIc with my summitar:

[mjflory]

I bought this IIIf with the 35mm Summaron, which is a little unusual (that it wasn't sold with a "normal" lens, I mean) but ideal for me, as I had no 35mm LTM lens save a Jupiter 12, which wouldn't fit on some other cameras anyway. The rangefinder mirror was fairly dim, so I replaced it with some half-silvered mirror stock from Edmund Scientific. It's not impossible! (There's also a half-silvered gold-tone mirror of almost exactly the right size to be found in old Kodak disc cameras, by the way.)

-- Michael

[wizard]

Originally Posted by robert_parker

This is one of my more art-y shots with the 21mmVC and IIIf Red Dial

Hey, Robert, you ARE taking some pain to get a good shot. Burning my car is something I have so far been shying away from. It's not a Renault though...

Cheers,

Andy

[Bateleur]

Me too ... a IIIF and summicron 5cm ... I posted a picture yesterday on the landscape and travel section taken with this wonderful camera combination. http://www.leica-camera-user.com/lan...hotograph.html

[asmith]

I have a IIIf and a IIf and Red Scale Elmar, 2.8 Summaron and 90 Elmar together with appropriare view finders and an ABLON. They have been serviced by Malcolm Taylor and perform excellently. Just to show I'm broad minded, I have an M8, two M7s, two M6s an several earlier Ms.
Alwyn

[heretic]

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...3950692&size=o

[Philippe D.]

Well, as this thread is like going to be a camera exhibition...

Here a IIIf red scale LOOHN (1954)


with Summarit and his hood XOONS, SBOOI viewer and OKARO orange filter

and here a IIIf black scale LOOHW (1952)


with Summaron 3,5cm f/3.5 and his hood SOONC, SBLOO viewer, Leicavit SYOOM and an original Leitz leather strap TSOOV

[lmr]

Count me in too... Went back to the basic a few years back.

IIIf RD/ST, IIIg.
5cm Cron, 5cm Summarit (Taylor, Taylor&Hobson), 5cm Summarit, 8.5cm f2 Nikkor P.C, VC 28 Ultron, and VC 15. Plus a VC-II meter

Looking at a VC 21 f4 or a VC 35 Nokton. Any experiance with these lens?

I really enjoy the feel, function and workflow of these old magic.

[jc_braconi]

Present, standing up !

[flatfour]

This is a great camera to use but you have to think before every picture. Maybe that's a good thing.

[robert_parker]

Quote:
Originally Posted by robert_parker
This is one of my more art-y shots with the 21mmVC and IIIf Red Dial


Hey, Robert, you ARE taking some pain to get a good shot. Burning my car is something I have so far been shying away from. It's not a Renault though...

Cheers,

Andy

Don't worry Andy - I made sure to burn someone else's car !!!

[bill]

[quote=Philippe D.]

Here a IIIf red scale LOOHN (1954)


with Summarit and his hood XOONS, SBOOI viewer and OKARO orange filter


Um... I am perfectly happy to be corrected, cos I'm new to this screwthread stuff, but I've got my OKARO on the other rangefinder window. Where I have it, only the rangefinder patch is orange. Where you have it, Philippe as shown in your picture, the whole image is orange.

Which is right?

Regards,

Bill

[mjflory]

Originally Posted by lmr

Looking at a VC 21 f4 or a VC 35 Nokton. Any experiance with these lens?

I used the 21/4 extensively on a trip this summer, mostly photographing gardens and buildings. I liked it very much. Sharp results, very portable, comfortable to use, even rangefinder-coupled (unlike the 25mm lens). Used it on my CL, which it fit very well, but I liked it enough to get a Bessa T for it so I could leave the 40/2 on the CL. -- Michael

[Philippe D.]

Hi Bill,

Originally Posted by bill

I've got my OKARO on the other rangefinder window. Where I have it, only the rangefinder patch is orange [...]

Which is right?

YOU are perfectly right !
... but it doesn't disturb me that way.

[maxspbr]

...So I use too the LTM. IIc with Summitar 50mm. I have a 135mm, but my heart belongs to the 50mm...

Some here are pointing some other old cameras, so I will do the same. Contax II pre-war, Super-ikonta, Voigtlander Bessa.

[bill]

Thanks Philippe, much appreciated.

Regards,

Bill

[bill]

By the way, this is mine...

My IIIc.jpg

IIIc, 35mm Elmar 3.5, 50mm Summitar 2.0, OKARO.

Regards,

Bill

[ironfly]

I own a large collection of LTM, some very rare lenses and cameras.

i really like sometimes to did little camera reparation or inside cleaning.

i own also a Dummy/atrappe IIIG with Dummy Elmar also