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Hoje, we have chosen two pixes of an early, classical Leitz "red box", but one seldom encountered : a box specifically designed for storing 15 film cassettes. The partitions are slightly rectangular to "comfortably" accomodate the cassettes with their protruding "securing tongue", and numbered frames inside the cover provide a repertory. Today of course, a plastic box would offer a cheaper a possibly stronger solution, but what about aesthetics and feeling ?

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When I 'inherited' my III from my wife's uncle, it came with one of these boxes, with 15 film cans in it containing the rolls which were exposed between buying the camera in 1938 and the start of the war. I had a devil of a job to flatten them out enough to get contact sheets!

 

Gerry

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When I 'inherited' my III from my wife's uncle, it came with one of these boxes, with 15 film cans in it containing the rolls which were exposed between buying the camera in 1938 and the start of the war. I had a devil of a job to flatten them out enough to get contact sheets!

 

Gerry

 

Thanks for your thread, Gerry. It's in fact the first time since I got my box in 1982, that I hear about another one.

Fifteen films and something like 500 negatives was probably a good average for two or three years' shooting for an amateur...70 years ago. Today, your uncle would probably take that number of digital shots in a holiday week, and would not need a nice box to store his SD memory card. We call that "progress"... and it is in a way, but personally (I am 76), I feel some kind of spleen.

Leically yours,

Pierre.

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there is a trajedy to all this, the camera belonged to a friend of this uncle, they travelled about for the year, taking photos as they went, and then came the war. The owner was killed very early in the war, the parents gave the leica to their son's friend , my wifes uncle, to remember him by.

He was not really keen on using such complicated camera, and so those 15 rolls are all that had been through the camera when I got it in the 80s.

It has been overhauled, together with the 50/3.5 Elmar, and I take it now and again for a roll or two, in my relative old age, 66!

Gerry

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there is a trajedy to all this, the camera belonged to a friend of this uncle, they travelled about for the year, taking photos as they went, and then came the war. The owner was killed very early in the war, the parents gave the leica to their son's friend , my wifes uncle, to remember him by.

He was not really keen on using such complicated camera, and so those 15 rolls are all that had been through the camera when I got it in the 80s.

It has been overhauled, together with the 50/3.5 Elmar, and I take it now and again for a roll or two, in my relative old age, 66!

Gerry

 

As a collector for 30 years, I've heard tens of nice or tragic stories linked to specific Leica cameras. It looks as if the Leica consistently built a very close "relation" with its owners/users.. At least, it's the way I feel it...

Tell me : you live in Nottingham which is always linked in my mind to Robin Hood and the Sherwood forest. Is there something "historical" in all that ?

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ah well, that is a bit of a problem!

 

As with so many of these 'folk' tales, any original tuth has been lost in centuries of retelling, dramatisation etc.

Who kniws any more, but its good for tourism!

Off to europe now for a holiday with the m6 & m3, so out of touch for a while.

Best wishes, Gerry

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