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Leica IIIf with only 1/500?


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Hi folks,

 

A friend of a friend has inherited some screw mount leica gear, and I am trying to help identify it and help put a vague value on it.

 

I just have a few photos to go by. 1 body, 2 lenses, and some kind of flash attachment?

 

One lens is a Ziess Triotar f/4 135, and from looking at the usual auction site seems to go for $30-150.

 

The other lens is a Cooke Amotal 50mm, and seems to go for around $900.

 

The body looks like a IIIf, and it came with a IIIf manual, but to me it looks like the shutter speed dial on the body only goes up to 1/500 instead of 1/1000? Can this be right?

 

(It also looks like it is missing the slow shutter speed dial, in the photo I have it looks like a black circle in that spot in front)

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Yes it looks like a IIf, thanks!

 

But a red dial IIf with only 1/500?

 

I hope the photo upload works, sorry for the lousy photos, its all I have to work with right now.

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the serial is consistent with a IIf red dial. Leica Pocket Book notes the IIf's, both black and red dial until 1954 had a top shutter speed of 1/500th. You've got a nice stock IIf. The serial number puts it in a block of production in 1952-53..I hope you can enjoy the camera!

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Give a look to our Wiki section, which ilustrates sintetically but correctly the variants of the IIf... yours is from this batch :

 

611001- 615000 Leica IIf (R5) 1952-1953 4000

 

(R5 = Red Dial 1/500 - the camera depicted in the Wiki page is from the same batch)

 

Nice and not so common camera with an interesting lens : I'd be curios to see its performance... is it regularly coupled to the rangefinder ? Cooke was a pioneer in optics, a very respectable designer who made several top quality lenses ; by converse, Triotar was a "cheap" Zeiss design of the '30s... Triotar 85 f4 was listed for years as a Contax lens, a low cost alternative to the "prestige" Sonnar 85 f2 (which I have in the Contarex version, adaptable to Leica M 240... ;))

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The flash bit is part of a Leitz flash missing its reflector. Somehow somebody appears to have modified it into a torch.:confused:

 

:) The bulb is a 'test' bulb to merely check for charge and continuity.

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ken_nyus But a red dial IIf with only 1/500?

 

As you learned, yes indeed! The Cooke lens has me very curious! Value, anyone?

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