Inspired by the likely source of this great find. Inspiration is everything and comes from unlikely places, like a Lapita. Whatever that may be...
Or maybe by the Leica 50 Rigid I bought that never quite focused correctly. When sent in for a costly CLA, I was informed by the noted repair shop that mine was among quite a few he'd recently seen and originating, he discovered, from workshops in "East Asia"; damaged old lenses were broken up and reassembled using the best looking parts, mixing elements and cells so the whole looked cosmetically perfect but the choice of internal workings were random and not matched, as they had originally been by Leica. That sort of inspiration.
Makes a handsome paperweight now.
