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Hello everyone!

 

I have been away from this forum for quite a while, but I'm back now just dropping in with a photo of my everyday user ~ a 1945 Leica IIIC K Chrome *non stamp* Ball Bearing Shutter camera and an original 1943 Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar T f1.5/50mm ( which I also use often on my Leica M8 as well )

I was shooting alot with that George Carr repaint 1945 Leica IIIC K Grey, I had, but I traded that for the M8 I own now, *really not a bad trade* I mix the best of my work between the M8 and also still shooting with real film on the IIIC K Chrome.

 

Enjoy!

 

Tom

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I grew up with Bernard Cahier and this is my pit pass :)

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I've had this camera for over fifty years and just recently had it and its lenses CLAd by Don Goldberg ("DAG") and Sherry Krauter ("Golden Touch"), so it's ready to go for fifty more--and so am I! :)

Don

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Got it today: 77 years old Leica III with contemporary Elmar. An early model with small dial for shutter-speeds and the small baseplate-pin. It seems to work fine - even the slow speeds. My first black one...:)

 

 

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(BTW: Where is the LTM "delivery register"?)

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Here a 100% crop taken with the uncoated 3,5/5cm Elmar:

 

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Leica listened to Lars Bergquist's proposal for a new 105mm-lens:

 

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Looks like a beauty!

 

Edit: Sorry, just saw that you meant the camera, not the lens.....

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It is a beauty! It is such a slender lens. I never saw an original Berg-Elmar before, on photos it looks much bigger. This item was offered on ebay as a "strange lens for a 16mm camera, which does not fit" so there was not much interest, otherwise it would have gone for the triple price. The glass and the outward finish and even the leather container look untouched since they left the factory 77 years ago.

 

The most delicate components are the hood and the cap - the latter has the size of a 50c-piece, the wide side of the hood takes an A36-filter. I made the first photos with it on the M8 with a SOOGZ and a E39 UV/IR-filter sticking on the hood, which looked really weird.

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Not enough bits to represent my age. OMG! I can't be Leica coded! No wonder everything is soft at the edges.

 

Is that softness, or Leica 'glow' :D

 

Howabout redoing the numerical codes in hex :rolleyes:

 

This better get moved to Barnack's I think ;)

 

G.

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Latest acquisition, a real black paint II factory converted with synchronized flash

 

I was especially after a factory converted black paint one, since these were painted with glossy paint and therefore matches better with my Millenium

 

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Latest acquisition, a real black paint II factory converted with synchronized flash

 

I was especially after a factory converted black paint one, since these were painted with glossy paint and therefore matches better with my Millenium

 

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Dear Ron,

Congratulations. Beautiful camera. You will notice that when it was "upgraded" for flash the body was changed. The original II did not have slow speed dial or provision for it as has your camera. I have a Leica I (1928) to which exactly the same process was applied in 1951.

Have fun.

Justin

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