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Google search gets you lots of pics and inf: :johnson postcard enlarger Gerry

68 was a good year! I bought an M3 (new) in preference to the M2 or 4, I couldnt easily see the 35 frame in the 2 and 4 with my glasses, and I liked the larger mag. Also wanted occasional use of 135. Still have it and the goggled 35 Summicron I bought at the same time. Gerry

I don't think Fuji is discontinuing cameras except old models,with similar sensors to the CL, new ones look promising. And I will soon be able to get the same Sigma lenses for mine as you het in L mount.... Gerry

They were much more powerful than any portable (i.e. battery powered) electronic flash at that time. We were using them with 5x4, HP4 or Ektacolor, at f/32 and f/16 respectively to get depth of field, as fill flash mostly, in single bulb guns. We also had Bowens heads that took 4 bulbs in each. Largest job I did was in Kings College Chapel in Cambridge, choir in the chancel, 3 heads with 5 in each (four in the sockets, one taped in the middle to fire in 'sympathy'). 15 per shot but two cameras using open shutter flash. The job was presumably priced accordingly by the sales dept! No idea how modern flashes compare, been retired a long while and dont use much flash at all for personal stuff. Gerry

1 shot, looks like a PF60, blue coated version for daylight film, just possibly a PF100 but it doesn't look big enough. I used many many of these in the 70s in Kobold and Boflash guns, with a Sinar. A couple of boxes of these took up a lot of space in the back of my Austin Minivan! Gerry

I got mine to use on M3 etc, and the lens head on short mount and adapters on digital stuff, works fine. Gerry

Next on to Boston, Mass, and to Washington DC, currently a centre of interest!

Home by the scenic route, 'I've gone to look for America' part 1 In 1969 I had been living in Montreal, Quebec (working for the Leica dealer), for more than two years. I decided to return home to England via 'the scenic route' as they say. First stage was to cross the US to spend some time with my elder sister living in California. So, as the song says I boarded a Greyhound bus (actually a feeder at first, Vermont Transit Lines) and headed first for Boston, Mass. then on to Washington DC via New York. In the camera bag were the two Leica M3 cameras, 35/2, 50/2.8, 90/2.8 and 135/4. 20 rolls of Kodachrome, 10 of FP4 and some HS Ektachrome. I hope you enjoy them. If so more episodes of the three month trip to come! 1 The view from the bus of the New England countryside. 2 Every State has to have it's Capitol, in this case the one in Montpellier, Vermont, is in keeping with the size of the state. Gerry

I thought this was 'a good idea' when Jaap started the thread, for reasons to do with health and preoccupation with getting to grips with digital it's taken me a while to get round to doing anything, but self isolation has provided the impetus to get on with scanning the slides. The photos which follow were taken with a camera outfit I had bought the previous year (1968) and it's sad in a way that this could be considered 'vintage'. But it's grown old more graciously than I have, I bought 2 M3s, 35/2, 50/2.8, 90/2.8 and 135/4, and still have one camera and three of the lenses, I acquired the 50mm Elmar screw mount lens seen here later, in exchange for the original bayonet lens so I could use it on my III after I had bought a Summicron. The original MC meter was swapped for MR and then the VCII. Gerry

The Leica III I inherited from my wife's 'uncle' (actually a close friend of her father) has been 'in the family' since bought new in 1938. It came with just such a box, and it was full of film canisters which had the developed rolls rolled up inside them, as far as I know all that were taken with the camera pre WWII. I did make contact sheets a long while ago, nothing spectacular, I must get round to scanning them sometime. Gerry

Bradford used to be a bit of a stuffy camera showroom, but its gone to be a cross between a badly curated gallery and a theme park. The Cité du Train in Mulhouse has a beautiful but dusty old display hall with a wonderful curved wood roof, and a new tin shed full of exhibits akin to Madame Tussauds. Museum design and management is a branch of the theatre now, regrettably. Gerry

There was a brief discussion of this on another forum (Fuji) by the man who catalogued it after he died. Apparently passed on by the RPS to the National Museum in Bradford, but regrettably not now on display, it's all gone trendy and old cameras are non PC Gerry

Yes, that's the date on my profile, but I'd had the M6 3 years by then and 'retired' with it. Maybe I was just a guest before but I didn't think so. Gerry

I've been around since the old 'official' Leica days but can't remember exactly when although pretty sure it was a bit before I retired in 2003, mainly a lurker at the moment, but I keep promising myself to get out the remaing Leicas and use some film Happy birthday to all, any excuse for a celebration! Gerry

The question was what the part was, which we have attempted to answer, it's relevance to the camera was not actually asked, if it is for an uncoupled clip on meter then its relevant, just as my VCII will fit on my III. Gerry