M3 Authenticity?

[luigi bertolotti]

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In case of a factory restoration/repair is surely possible : old mechanisms like double stroke and oldstyle times had probably no more spares available, and the Customer Service preferred to use new parts: years ago, when I had an issue on the VF/RF of my M2, they told me that it would had been repaired "converting" it to the M4 one.

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[Guest volker_m]

Is it possible that the guard ring was removed, the body was converted to single stroke and the shutter speeds were changed from the old 1-2-5-10-25-50-100 sequence to the new one?

 

Or possibly just an old top plate (with old S/N) on a newer body?

[josetrujil]

Hi

I'm newby, and my English is underdevelopped. Excuse me in advance for the mistakes

I have the opportuniti to buy the camera which pics are in the album:

 

Can I ask for your opinion, and help ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Jose

[jaapv]

Unfortunately there is no image to be found. Please upload in a post.

[josetrujil]

Sorry, pretty newby. Right now there are pics inside rhe file

[wizard]

This must be a very early M3, judging by the shape of the lugs, the screws at the the rear for fixing the top cover to the body (they were omitted later on) and the non-existent frame selector. It seems genuine to me, but it is hard to tell from the pictures alone whether this is a good buy or not.

 

Cheers, Andy