Mad Posted June 2, 2010 Share #1 Posted June 2, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I've recently found in an atique shop a Leica D.R.P. Ernst Leitz Wetzlar No 7690388, with a Summicron 1:2 F=5cm Nr.2073355 Lens! I would be thankfull if anyone could provided me with further information about this model. Model type M3 or M6? Year of production and price! I would also like to let you know that its body is "dressed" with snake skin, is it a special edition or what? Thank you! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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andybarton Posted June 2, 2010 Share #2 Posted June 2, 2010 Is this the same camera and lens that you nearly bought before? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UliWer Posted June 2, 2010 Share #3 Posted June 2, 2010 Seems to be rather strange: If you look here: Summilux - Num you may find that there is no camera with this number. The latest Leica cameras have numbers around 4 Million, 7 Million is far away. With numbers about 769xxx it could be a screw-mount IIIf from 1955. It would be unusual though not impossible if cameras from 1955 were still marked with D.R.P.; more probabale would be D.B.P. The lens No. indicates a production year of 1964. Almost nothing is impossible with Leica, but the production of 50mm summicrons with screw-mounts ended in 1960, so it would be extremely unusual if there was one from 1964. A bayonet-mount lens from 1964 would be impossible to fix on a screw-mount camera. The camera could be an early M3 with numbers about 775xxx, or 750001 to 760000. It would certainly be engraved "DBP" -without spots, never D.R.P. and extremely unlikely D.B.P. with spots. Certainly there were no cameras with snake leather produced by Leica at this time. So this must be added later - if it is a real Leica combination at all and no fake. P.S. Sorry, that I didn't read your first posting first: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-collectors-historica/117466-leica-d-r-p-more-information.html#post1246637 There was no need to read my posting if I had linked to the answers already given there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted June 2, 2010 Share #4 Posted June 2, 2010 In your previous post you quoted s/n 7690233... now another of the same "impossible" greatness... add the "snake" skin... and all of this could even mean that the shop is specialized in Russian "Leicas"... ... though they usually put more attention in engraving "correct" numbers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 3, 2010 Share #5 Posted June 3, 2010 Maybe the gentleman is selling them and looking for "official" approval? In your previous post you quoted s/n 7690233... now another of the same "impossible" greatness... . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted June 3, 2010 Share #6 Posted June 3, 2010 Maybe the gentleman is selling them and looking for "official" approval? Ehm !!! I don't want to risk to be offensive... but the nickname... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted June 3, 2010 Share #7 Posted June 3, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) As I intimated in my post above, I think that this poster is actually a time waster... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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