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Michael
If you look at this old thread you will see I posted two black and chrome cameras. Note the serial numbers which makes them 1936 also (I think).
I no longer have them, sold them both.
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171278&highlight=black+chrome
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Erik van Straten
Veteran
After 1936 there are no longer black and nickel cameras, only chrome and black and chrome.
I feel very stupid now that I once could buy a black and nickel SCNOO but that I didn't. I have a black and chrome one, nice, but the black and nickel one was so beautiful. It must have been from 1936 too.
Erik.
besk
Well-known
If I don't want to use my IIIf (rd) then I jump to my M6. I have always felt that way.
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
xayraa, I stood in the shop in Tokyo with both the iii black/nickel and the lllg on the counter... and even though i had wanted a g for decades..... i had exactly the same feeling. The lllg was big and heavy enough, i knew it may as well be an M.
Flickr
Yes, that is how I felt too...the idea of getting a Barnack Leica was the charm of stripped down simplicity and the IIIg was not that or a marvel of improvements either, its larger size than the svelt production screw-mount Leicas it superseded made it rather clumsy looking, the better viewfinder was not enough as an enticement to keep it.
The only regret I had was that I did not buy it the day I first saw it in a camera shop's window...as it was sporting a rare rigid LTM 50mm Summicron, but the lens was sold sans the camera body hours later to a Leica collector.. so I bought the IIIg three days later but with a 35mm f3.5 Summaron lens.
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Michael
I haven't looked at the production numbers but it looks as though they were busy in 1936. I haven't got a catalogue for the year but it seems the product line included at least Standard, II, 250, III, IIIa
The overlap gets curious. According to Sartorious you could buy a III, a IIIa and a IIIb in 1938.