What is this?

[BillBrittain]

My lawn mower has a pull starter that looks like this:

[Bernd Banken]

Outboard engines like British Seagull have it until today

I guess it's a fast winding device later known as Leicavit...

Cheers
Bernd

[stunsworth]

It's a very early German yo-yo. The design took some years to perfect. This was one of the earlier, less successful, designs. Just as you can now buy a phone with a built in camera, Leitz had decided to try and corner the market in camera yo-yos.

[BillBrittain]

Originally Posted by Bernd Banken

Outboard engines like British Seagull have it until today

I guess it's a fast winding device later known as Leicavit...

Cheers
Bernd

Ha ha, only a Leica fanatic would know about British Seagull motors. They are the same breed...

[TimF]

Hi Bill,

Its a device for (slightly) remote film advance and shutter release, coded OOFRC, and first introduced in 1935. It was last catalogued in 1939. Obviously the camera needs to be tripod mounted.

The photographer operated the contraption by pulling on one string (the one closest to the camera and disappearing behind it in your photo - which should actually be white) to fire the shutter, and on the other one to advance the film and retension the shutter.

All information from Lager III, pp52.

(The other answers are much funnier! )

[Bernd Banken]

Originally Posted by BillBrittain

Ha ha, only a Leica fanatic would know about British Seagull motors. They are the same breed...

As a formerly owner of a Mirror Dinghi 11ft. the knowledge of B.S. is a must...

Bernd

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by Bernd Banken

Outboard engines like British Seagull have it until today

I guess it's a fast winding device later known as Leicavit...

Cheers
Bernd

I had no girls
I had no sex
but
from my father
an old Ikoflex

... nice poem ... is from your brain? I could suggest a Contarex at the end: more euphonic and nicer than the modest Ikoflex; BTW, I really have an old Contarx from my father... about girls and sex... depends...

[Bernd Banken]

in the german Forum @Leica Freund had this slogan ended with "Rolleiflex" which sounds better.
But my father could only afford the Zeiss Ikoflex the cheaper version. I guess he gave up after 2 or 3 rolls of film and the camera rested for many years in my parents sleeping room.
The Compur shutterblades got corroded s that the camera is on the shelf in my living room.

Cheers
Bernd

Originally Posted by Bernd Banken

in the german Forum @Leica Freund had this slogan ended with "Rolleiflex" which sounds better.
But my father could only afford the Zeiss Ikoflex the cheaper version. I guess he gave up after 2 or 3 rolls of film and the camera rested for many years in my parents sleeping room.
The Compur shutterblades got corroded s that the camera is on the shelf in my living room.
Cheers
Bernd

Thank you Bernie for inviting -
now the poems in the original Versions

I need no girls
I need no sex
I only need my Leicaflex

Luigi - Look at the advertising leaflet of LeicaflexSL2 in 1974 - you find the reason why.

Here the other poem for elder people

Sex by Sex with Rolleiflex

look at the photos of beauty-photographers in the fities und sixties

Good Pictures
Leicas Freund

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by Leicas Freund

Thank you Bernie for inviting -
now the poems in the original Versions

I need no girls
I need no sex
I only need my Leicaflex

Luigi - Look at the advertising leaflet of LeicaflexSL2 in 1974 - you find the reason why.

Here the other poem for elder people

Sex by Sex with Rolleiflex

look at the photos of beauty-photographers in the fities und sixties

Good Pictures
Leicas Freund

Damn, I have only an Italian SL2 brochure maybe of '75...nice and no more...it speaks also about my always-forbidden-dream...the 800 6,3... what is into the 74 leaflet You quote ? Difficult to find, I think..

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by Leicas Freund

Thank you Bernie for inviting -
now the poems in the original Versions

I need no girls
I need no sex
I only need my Leicaflex

Luigi - Look at the advertising leaflet of LeicaflexSL2 in 1974 - you find the reason why.

Here the other poem for elder people

Sex by Sex with Rolleiflex

look at the photos of beauty-photographers in the fities und sixties

Good Pictures
Leicas Freund

I need no girls
I need no sex
I only need my Leicaflex

Well. TAKE ON THIS OTHER !

I have a girl
She weights a ton...
but looks SO sharp
thanks Summicron

haw haw let start an anthology of such poems ! We could ask Solms to publish !

[BillBrittain]

Originally Posted by luigi bertolotti

I need no girls
I need no sex
I only need my Leicaflex

Well. TAKE ON THIS OTHER !

I have a girl
She weights a ton...
but looks SO sharp
thanks Summicron

haw haw let start an anthology of such poems ! We could ask Solms to publish !

I wonder what rhymes with SummiLUX....

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by BillBrittain

I wonder what rhymes with SummiLUX....

...ehm, who is the moderator here? let us not go too hard with rhymes...I really thoght something abut Summilux...nice lens...

oh my girl
let us relax
after mount
the Visoflex!

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by BillBrittain

I wonder what rhymes with SummiLUX....

I like a lot the old 8,5 cm 1,5, but is really heavy...

Look, girl of my dreams
how my muscles flex
when screwing on
the Summarex

and more to come...

[Canfred]

Originally Posted by BillBrittain

Ha ha, only a Leica fanatic would know about British Seagull motors. They are the same breed...

This may be so Bill , but British Seagull no longer makes engines.Much to my regret actually, I used them on my sailing tender for years.
Is the breed now dying out?

[flatfour]

Can Leica users be so dim
That when they're out on shoots
They have to change the lens a lot
When they could use their boots



With apologies to Cartier-Bresson

[Bernd Banken]

Originally Posted by flatfour

Can Leica users be so dim
That when they're out on shoots
They have to change the lens a lot
When they could use their boots



With apologies to Cartier-Bresson

and what about Robert Doisneau?

Originally Posted by luigi bertolotti

Damn, I have only an Italian SL2 brochure maybe of '75...nice and no more...it speaks also about my always-forbidden-dream...the 800 6,3... what is into the 74 leaflet You quote ? Difficult to find, I think..

Not a long objkektive - a normal.
You can see the picture on the cover of the lealet for SL2
An open blossom, an objektive uside, a peeping Tom with Leicaflex SL2.
And inside - not so plane as on the screen - a Lady - with nice blouse - and you have a nice view.
Especially for our Non European Friends the following adwise:
Attention - naked lady - on your own risk - Adults only


http://www.leica-camera-user.com/lei...-leica-m4.html

And in 1975 there is a brush - a really shame and scandal:

http://www.leica-camera-user.com/lei...eica-m4-2.html

Greetings
Leicas Friend

The message of the cover-picture
Thats the only, I adore:
I need no girls, I need no sex, I only need my Leicaflex