LTM users, its time to stand up and be counted!

[lleo]

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All beauties. And always film.

[Maurice van Cleef]

present:

Leica Ia

Leica IIIf red dail

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[earleygallery]

I got a new lens for it, and I haven't had a chance to evaluate the results of using it yet, but it looks good.  I'm anticipating using it for real, anyway.

 

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You should be pleased when you see the results, I think they're great lenses with a very nice quality to the images, especially for portraits.

[earleygallery]

present:

Leica Ia

Leica IIIf red dail

 

Welcome!

[Antonio Madureira]

Always present as I have already posted in "Some Leicas" and "My Monochrome"!

 

Regards 

António

 

 

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[Nordvik]

1941 IIIc + 5cm Elmar

 

(taken with 135mm Tele-Elmar + Bellows II + Viso II + M9, handheld + beer)

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[Nordvik]

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An older picture of the same camera taken with a 9cm Elmar: 

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[lleo]

That's very nice and neat. You should look for a crown to fit the trigger.

[Nordvik]

I know. DAG Camera Parts have one for $15.00. Too expensive shipping to Europe for one tiny part.

[lleo]

I guess you've checked on the evil bay. Anyway when the amount is quite low, you shouldn't pay customs fees. But better if you find it within Europe.

[jaques]

I have amassed a trove of LTM gear- still love my first LTM find- a Red Scale Elmar for $5 at junk sale:

 

the lens:

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the results:

 

[Palaios]

Hello,

I just joined although I have used Leicas on and off for many years. My favorite 35mm camera is Leica #56158, converted in 1932 or '33 to a Model II, equipped with a VIDOM and

an 11:00 o'clock nickel 5cm Hektor, #122011;

an 11:00 o'clock nickel 3.5cm close focus Elmar (focusing to about 1.75 feet), no serial number;

9cm f4 fat Elmar, no serial number;

a 13.5cm f4.5 Elmar, #142742.

I also use a IIIb equipped with a 5cm Summarit, an 8.5cm Nikkor, and a 13.5cm Nikkor, and also a 20cm Telyt and 40cm Meyer Tele-Megor mounted on a Visoflex or the earlier PLOOT.

I usually develop film in Emofin, originally created by Leica advocate Curt Emmerman in the late twenties and enlarge with a Leitz FILOY. I also use medium and large format cameras.

 

Jim

 

Jim

 

[lleo]

Jaques... I don't understand which places with those kind of junk sales you all attend. Damn. $5,00. Awesome

And great pics. Though that heaps of energy it doesn't work really good to me

[asiafish]

Just bought a nice user grade IIIg

[jaques]

Jaques... I don't understand which places with those kind of junk sales you all attend. Damn. $5,00. Awesome

And great pics. Though that heaps of energy it doesn't work really good to me

the energy drink is there for cognitive dissonance- to contemporise the still life genera...

 

 yes- and it was actually $5.00AUD which is $3.58USD in todays money! Certianly my greatest ever Leica find- having said that I visited this particular trash market for some 15 years before I found this little Gem Elmar at the bottom of a box of old broken flashes, selenium light meters, plastic junk cameras and other assorted photograhic detritus. It was a rare EUREKA moment!

[lleo]

Which is € 3,18 darn!

[earleygallery]

I'm so glad that I started this thread oh so long ago - 879 posts later and it's still going strong, just like our lovely Barnack cameras! 

 

Great to see so much enthusiasm for these superb pieces of engineering and IMHO every Leica fan should own a Barnack to understand the essence of Leica. 

 

Keep 'em coming guys! 

[lleo]

Well, everybody has his own tastes, but the Barnack is the camera which started it all. And, right because it follows the technic, the tecnology, the projecting, the manifacturing of its era, it is a piece of art. Speaking of airplanes, just to make an example, everybody here probably like the last Airbus 380 or the Boeing 747-800, but how many would love flying the Zeppelin?

[asiafish]

IIIg by Andrew F, on Flickr

 

 

My IIIg fitted with a wartime Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm f/2 Sonnar T converted to LTM by Brian Sweeney (using a Russian Jupiter 8 focus helical).

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[Shac]

My two - don't get as much as they should but....