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Guest Bernd Banken

Outboard engines like British Seagull have it until today;)

 

I guess it's a fast winding device later known as Leicavit...

 

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Bernd

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It's a very early German yo-yo. The design took some years to perfect. This was one of the earlier, less successful, designs. Just as you can now buy a phone with a built in camera, Leitz had decided to try and corner the market in camera yo-yos.

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Hi Bill,

 

Its a device for (slightly) remote film advance and shutter release, coded OOFRC, and first introduced in 1935. It was last catalogued in 1939. Obviously the camera needs to be tripod mounted.

 

The photographer operated the contraption by pulling on one string (the one closest to the camera and disappearing behind it in your photo - which should actually be white) to fire the shutter, and on the other one to advance the film and retension the shutter.

 

All information from Lager III, pp52. :)

 

(The other answers are much funnier! :D)

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Guest Bernd Banken
Ha ha, only a Leica fanatic would know about British Seagull motors. They are the same breed... :D

 

As a formerly owner of a Mirror Dinghi 11ft. the knowledge of B.S. is a must...;)

 

Bernd

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Outboard engines like British Seagull have it until today;)

 

I guess it's a fast winding device later known as Leicavit...

 

Cheers

Bernd

 

I had no girls

I had no sex

but

from my father

an old Ikoflex

 

... nice poem ... is from your brain? I could suggest a Contarex at the end: more euphonic and nicer than the modest Ikoflex; BTW, I really have an old Contarx from my father... about girls and sex... depends...

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Guest Bernd Banken

in the german Forum @Leica Freund had this slogan ended with "Rolleiflex" which sounds better.

But my father could only afford the Zeiss Ikoflex the cheaper version. I guess he gave up after 2 or 3 rolls of film and the camera rested for many years in my parents sleeping room.

The Compur shutterblades got corroded s that the camera is on the shelf in my living room.

 

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Bernd

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Guest Leicas Freund
in the german Forum @Leica Freund had this slogan ended with "Rolleiflex" which sounds better.

But my father could only afford the Zeiss Ikoflex the cheaper version. I guess he gave up after 2 or 3 rolls of film and the camera rested for many years in my parents sleeping room.

The Compur shutterblades got corroded s that the camera is on the shelf in my living room.

Cheers

Bernd

Thank you Bernie for inviting -

now the poems in the original Versions

 

I need no girls

I need no sex

I only need my Leicaflex

 

Luigi - Look at the advertising leaflet of LeicaflexSL2 in 1974 - you find the reason why.

 

Here the other poem for elder people

 

Sex by Sex with Rolleiflex

 

look at the photos of beauty-photographers in the fities und sixties

 

Good Pictures

Leicas Freund

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Thank you Bernie for inviting -

now the poems in the original Versions

 

I need no girls

I need no sex

I only need my Leicaflex

 

Luigi - Look at the advertising leaflet of LeicaflexSL2 in 1974 - you find the reason why.

 

Here the other poem for elder people

 

Sex by Sex with Rolleiflex

 

look at the photos of beauty-photographers in the fities und sixties

 

Good Pictures

Leicas Freund

 

Damn, I have only an Italian SL2 brochure maybe of '75...nice and no more...it speaks also about my always-forbidden-dream...the 800 6,3... what is into the 74 leaflet You quote ? Difficult to find, I think..

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Thank you Bernie for inviting -

now the poems in the original Versions

 

I need no girls

I need no sex

I only need my Leicaflex

 

Luigi - Look at the advertising leaflet of LeicaflexSL2 in 1974 - you find the reason why.

 

Here the other poem for elder people

 

Sex by Sex with Rolleiflex

 

look at the photos of beauty-photographers in the fities und sixties

 

Good Pictures

Leicas Freund

 

I need no girls

I need no sex

I only need my Leicaflex

 

Well. TAKE ON THIS OTHER !

 

I have a girl

She weights a ton...

but looks SO sharp

thanks Summicron

 

haw haw let start an anthology of such poems ! We could ask Solms to publish !

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I need no girls

I need no sex

I only need my Leicaflex

 

Well. TAKE ON THIS OTHER !

 

I have a girl

She weights a ton...

but looks SO sharp

thanks Summicron

 

haw haw let start an anthology of such poems ! We could ask Solms to publish !

 

I wonder what rhymes with SummiLUX....:p

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Ha ha, only a Leica fanatic would know about British Seagull motors. They are the same breed... :D

This may be so Bill , but British Seagull no longer makes engines.Much to my regret actually, I used them on my sailing tender for years.

Is the breed now dying out?

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Guest flatfour

Can Leica users be so dim

That when they're out on shoots

They have to change the lens a lot

When they could use their boots

 

 

 

With apologies to Cartier-Bresson

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Guest Bernd Banken
Can Leica users be so dim

That when they're out on shoots

They have to change the lens a lot

When they could use their boots

 

 

 

With apologies to Cartier-Bresson

 

and what about Robert Doisneau?:rolleyes:

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Guest Leicas Freund
Damn, I have only an Italian SL2 brochure maybe of '75...nice and no more...it speaks also about my always-forbidden-dream...the 800 6,3... what is into the 74 leaflet You quote ? Difficult to find, I think..

Not a long objkektive - a normal.

You can see the picture on the cover of the lealet for SL2

An open blossom, an objektive uside, a peeping Tom with Leicaflex SL2.

And inside - not so plane as on the screen - a Lady - with nice blouse - and you have a nice view.

Especially for our Non European Friends the following adwise:

Attention - naked lady - on your own risk - Adults only

 

http://www.leica-camera-user.com/leica-sammler-historica/15365-40-jahre-leica-m4.html

 

And in 1975 there is a brush - a really shame and scandal:

 

http://www.leica-camera-user.com/leica-sammler-historica/15365-40-jahre-leica-m4-2.html

 

Greetings

Leicas Friend

The message of the cover-picture

Thats the only, I adore:

I need no girls, I need no sex, I only need my Leicaflex

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