wlaidlaw Posted August 3, 2009 Share #1 Posted August 3, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have recently been in correspondence with David Young, a director of the Leica Historical Society of America. I sent him a scan of a manual he did not have. He hosts a very wide range of Leica manuals here David Young's Photosite. He said he is currently looking for scans of Leicaflex and Leicaflex SL manuals. If anyone has a manual that they could send me scans or digital photographs (JPEG's, PDF's, DNG's or pretty much anything else), I will use Acrobat Pro to assemble them into a booklet and forward them to him. If you cannot scan them, you are in Europe and are willing to lend me your Leicaflex/SL manual, I would be happy to scan them for you and then return the manual to you. If anyone can help, please PM me. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 3, 2009 Posted August 3, 2009 Hi wlaidlaw, Take a look here Looking for scan of Leicaflex + SL manuals. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
luigi bertolotti Posted August 4, 2009 Share #2 Posted August 4, 2009 In case you never went on it, this site : Leicaflex instruction manual, user manual, free instruction manual, pdf manuals hosts a number of manuals - Leicaflex and Leicaflex SL included. I do not know which can be the terms to make them available on another site Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share #3 Posted August 4, 2009 In case you never went on it, this site :Leicaflex instruction manual, user manual, free instruction manual, pdf manuals hosts a number of manuals - Leicaflex and Leicaflex SL included. I do not know which can be the terms to make them available on another site Luigi, That is a semi-commercial site run by Mike Buktus, the download is copyrighted and is a not very good quality scan of a "well used" manual. David Young who provides a free download site as a service to Leica users, would not be able to use this. DY has cleared the copyright issues with Leica for his manual service, so if I can borrow original manuals for the Leicaflex and SL to scan and forward the files to him, that would be a better solution. Thanks for the link anyway. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Digiuser Posted August 4, 2009 Share #4 Posted August 4, 2009 Wilson, have a look here: http://www.joe-chan.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share #5 Posted August 4, 2009 Wilson, have a look here: http://www.joe-chan.com/ Wolfgang, Thanks for that link. I have sent an email to Joe, asking if he will let LHSA have a version without his copyright watermark. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew748 Posted August 9, 2009 Share #6 Posted August 9, 2009 Hi wlaidlaw I have: "The Leica way" by Andrew Matheson "Leicaflex system of photography" by Frank Grande and Simon Nathan "The Leica and the Leicaflex" by Scheerer and Makovec I am in Surrey and i would be happy to lend you these books as long as they come to no harm. I would prefer not to post them either. but then we are practically local cheers Andrew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted August 9, 2009 Share #7 Posted August 9, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi Wilson, Please look at here for the SL (....but in french sorry) http://www.summilux.net/documents/NoticeLeicaflexSL.pdf A very good reflex according to me, very basic, simple and "mechanical" Henry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted August 9, 2009 Author Share #8 Posted August 9, 2009 Hi Wilson,Please look at here for the SL (....but in french sorry) http://www.summilux.net/documents/NoticeLeicaflexSL.pdf A very good reflex according to me, very basic, simple and "mechanical" Henry Henry, Many thanks for the link but as this is to pass on to the LHSA, I don't think French language one would work. I bought a second hand Leicaflex SL in 1983 after I had a very poor experience with a new Nikon FD. Sadly I must have had the "Friday" SL and it was very little better but unlike the FD, the expensive rectifications were not on warranty. I exchanged that for a Contax 139 in 1984 and it is still working perfectly, now in the hands of a Russian friend. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted August 9, 2009 Share #9 Posted August 9, 2009 Henry,Many thanks for the link but as this is to pass on to the LHSA, I don't think French language one would work. I bought a second hand Leicaflex SL in 1983 after I had a very poor experience with a new Nikon FD. Sadly I must have had the "Friday" SL and it was very little better but unlike the FD, the expensive rectifications were not on warranty. I exchanged that for a Contax 139 in 1984 and it is still working perfectly, now in the hands of a Russian friend. Wilson Wilson, For me I always have my Leicaflex bought new first in 1968 and which is always functional . If all camera is as SL it would be marvellous ! ...a picture of my SL with the 50 summicron "made in germany" or the ancestor and the modern ....M8 with which I took this photo : 41 years separates them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
storybrown Posted August 9, 2009 Share #10 Posted August 9, 2009 I don't know whether you still need it, but I have an original Leicaflex SL brochure (35pp) and an original Leitz instruction booklet for the SL in fine condition (39pp) that I would be happy to send to you (from Texas) for scanning, &c, if you will send it back to me. If this would be useful, just PM me an appropriate address. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted August 9, 2009 Author Share #11 Posted August 9, 2009 I don't know whether you still need it, but I have an original Leicaflex SL brochure (35pp) and an original Leitz instruction booklet for the SL in fine condition (39pp) that I would be happy to send to you (from Texas) for scanning, &c, if you will send it back to me. If this would be useful, just PM me an appropriate address. Guy, May I ask you to contact David Young of the LHSA (Leica Historical Society of America) who is the person looking for this manual at dsy@furnfeather.net . It might be easier than doing this at one remove. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
storybrown Posted August 9, 2009 Share #12 Posted August 9, 2009 Done! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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