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RogerW

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1/1000 can be normal for that s/n... black numbers on synchro dial is not.... maybe it has been restored and the numbers re-painted...:confused:

Can you post a picture of the top ? Has the times knob the standard writing with "25--1" at the slowest speed ?

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Hi Roger

 

I'll defer to Luigi, who will give you the expert opinion but to me it looks like a 11f Red Dial from about 1953-54, it might be that the numbers look black through use but are actually red.

 

I have two cameras where you would be hard pressed to tell that the numbers started out as red - they look black even if you get a really close look.

 

Oddly the numbers on my 11f from the same period are a good clear red but that camera was a 'barn find' in Denmark and shows little, if any use - we just have to sort out the film transport on that one, which seems to have been 'out of kilter' from the outset (it is known in some circles of the LUF as 'The Devil's Camera', as it is a beautiful machine waiting to be used but you can't get a film through it.....:eek:).

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Hi Roger

 

I'll defer to Luigi, who will give you the expert opinion but to me it looks like a 11f Red Dial from about 1953-54, it might be that the numbers look black through use but are actually red.

 

 

My opinion too (and, Robert, thanks for the "expert" referred to me... :) but I do not pretend to be really one...)

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My memory from 50 years ago when I owned a IIf black dial (confirmed by a bit of googling) is that the shutter speed progression is diffferent too, with the black dial having 30, 60, 100 and the red dial the 25, 50, 75, 100 you have

 

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My memory from 50 years ago when I owned a IIf black dial (confirmed by a bit of googling) is that the shutter speed progression is diffferent too, with the black dial having 30, 60, 100 and the red dial the 25, 50, 75, 100 you have

 

Gerry

 

Correct : the times knob of the black dial is this :

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I also have a IIf with serial number 712072 and originally thought that it was a black dial but on closer examination under the microscope it had specks of red, showing its true stripes. I also thought I had a rare one. Oh well when it comes to Leica this is the dream too often shattered by reality!

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