Get your BUFFED black Leica HERE!

[goamules]

I hope this seller learned that grinding down a black Leica III to show the brass doesn't really help his price. Or does it, is $385 for a body with a Summar above or below the going rate now? I know Leicas are common, but I just can't believe how someone would purposefully scrub down the finish of a quality camera. ebay 261652195670

 

[jsrockit]

People love brass...

 

[Luddite Frank]

"People are stupid..."


- McMullen's Axiom

:bang:

 

[Luddite Frank]

What bothers me more than the stripping / blackening / polishing, is that most of the "sharp edges" of the knobs have been rounded-over...

At least they didn't base coat it white, "antique it", then paint flowers on it... in the "shabby-chic" mode....

About 10 years ago there was a fad for that with vintage electric fans... :bang:


I stand by McMullen's Axiom.


😡

 

[goamules]

I concur. If it's a chrome IIIc that was painted black, then buffed down to brass, why is there no chrome showing? Anyway, it doesn't matter the particulars. It is a highly modified, unoriginal camera, that looks like dog meat.

I also stand by that axiom.

 

[farlymac]

The winning bidder just won their first eBay item! And they wanted it bad, as first they had to outbid the first person, and had to outbid a third person, then kept upping the bid to ensure no one else would over bid them. Seven of the nine bids belonged to the winner, including the last four.

The seller did at least list it as an "art" camera, but lets hope he's not emboldened by his success, and continues defacing good equipment.

PF

 

[Luddite Frank]

There's still some traces of chrome plate on top of the wind and re-wind knobs, I think.

Hopefully it will be a decent shooting camera for the winning bidder... if they're counting on it to be a "valuable piece of Leica collectible", they are in for a sad surprise. 🙁

 

[traveler_101]

There's still some traces of chrome plate on top of the wind and re-wind knobs, I think.

Hopefully it will be a decent shooting camera for the winning bidder... if they're counting on it to be a "valuable piece of Leica collectible", they are in for a sad surprise. 🙁

Well they did a thorough job removing the plate from the slow speed dial . . . and managed to round it out very nicely (LOL).

Shooter -- with a haze-filled Summar? Come on, this is a display item you set on a bureau or in a book shelf, complete with its leather case and right alongside an original edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).

 

[Luddite Frank]

I wouldn't display this anywhere in MY home... 😱

 

[yoyo22]

It still looks far better than the gold plated ones some guys in Poland or the Czech Republic are producing/defacing.

 

[jmilkins]

...well, in Australia we have a term for this kind of condition,and it rhymes with "buffed"....

 

[traveler_101]

I wouldn't display this anywhere in MY home... 😱

Of course not; this isn't for people like us who use cameras; it's a display item part of an expensive Manhattan interior decorator's repertoire.

 

[Luddite Frank]

...well, in Australia we have a term for this kind of condition,and it rhymes with "buffed"....

Trying to remember back to my childhood interest in numismatism, there was a special terms for coins that had been brightened-up...


Whizzed ? Whirled ?


😱

 

[nanthor]

Whatever you do, don't buy from that seller. I am the one who recently left the negative feedback. I bought a canon LTM lens from him. When I received it I found MANY deep scratches on the front element and asked him to OK a return, which he reluctantly agreed to. I sent the lens back and then did not hear from him for 2 weeks. When I finally got hold of him he refused the refund, saying that I had somehow changed the rear element and left white things inside the lens, and some oil on the aperture. It was ridiculous and I filed for a refund with paypal. He made up several stories along the way, all lies. I've never encountered anyone so resistant to take a return that they would rather have super negative feedback then to do the right thing. I got my money back, so paypal does serve a purpose in some cases. The seller fancies himself a lens/camera technician but I think he is probably a butcher. If you were to buy something, there's no way to say whether the lens had been opened up and closed with something wrong inside. Just a warning. Bob

 

[farlymac]

I bought a 35mm lens once from Poland, and it came with a piece of cardboard in place of the diaphram, with an approximately f11 size hole punched in it.

PF

 

[iphoenix]

Whatever you do, don't buy from that seller. Just a warning. Bob

Bob, looks as though you were very, very, lucky getting a refund. The price you paid was full money and should have resulted in a lens (without finder) in excellent condition.

"Goamules", it looks to me as though a Dremel with buffer wheel and grinding/polishing paste has been used. Heaven knows where else the paste has lodged. I note that at least one of the strap lugs is off-center so, presumably, it has been removed for some reason - possibly to fit the flash contact 😱. I therefore greatly doubt that the (apparently excellent) body leather is original.

I wish the purchaser the best of luck.

David

 

[traveler_101]

Whatever you do, don't buy from that seller. I am the one who recently left the negative feedback. I bought a canon LTM lens from him. When I received it I found MANY deep scratches on the front element and asked him to OK a return, which he reluctantly agreed to. I sent the lens back and then did not hear from him for 2 weeks. When I finally got hold of him he refused the refund, saying that I had somehow changed the rear element and left white things inside the lens, and some oil on the aperture. It was ridiculous and I filed for a refund with paypal. He made up several stories along the way, all lies. I've never encountered anyone so resistant to take a return that they would rather have super negative feedback then to do the right thing. I got my money back, so paypal does serve a purpose in some cases. The seller fancies himself a lens/camera technician but I think he is probably a butcher. If you were to buy something, there's no way to say whether the lens had been opened up and closed with something wrong inside. Just a warning. Bob

I have to admit he seems to be an "amazing character"; great story-line too for a postmodern version of Dragnet. To continue with the narrative: when this guy tracks down your characterisation of him as a 'self-styled camera technician who is actually a butcher' he makes threats against you. That's where the police come in.

 

[Luddite Frank]

I have to admit he seems to be an "amazing character"; great story-line too for a postmodern version of Dragnet. To continue with the narrative: when this guy tracks down your characterisation of him as a 'self-styled camera technician who is actually a butcher' he makes threats against you. That's where the police come in.

Film noir ?

😀

 

[thompsonks]

I've seen an M2 in this condition, or even scruffier. it belonged to a homeless street photographer whom I met on the wrong end of Market Street in San Francisco. He said he'd had mental health problems but pursued his photography when he could. He'd buffed his black M2 (!!) so that it looked like a ruin and nobody would take it away from him. And he'd sewn a special jacket pocket to conceal it. He claimed to have a similar one at a relative's house.

Slight disappointment: he told me he had some work on a free website for street artists, and I took a look – but it was more ordinary than I'd expected from his lifestyle. Just another street shooter like the rest of us. But his camera 'butchery' served his purpose.

Kirk

 

[Chris101]

I've seen an M2 in this condition, or even scruffier. it belonged to a homeless street photographer whom I met on the wrong end of Market Street in San Francisco. He said he'd had mental health problems but pursued his photography when he could. He'd buffed his black M2 (!!) so that it looked like a ruin and nobody would take it away from him. And he'd sewn a special jacket pocket to conceal it. He claimed to have a similar one at a relative's house.

Slight disappointment: he told me he had some work on a free website for street artists, and I took a look – but it was more ordinary than I'd expected from his lifestyle. Just another street shooter like the rest of us. But his camera 'butchery' served his purpose.

Kirk

Reminds me of the overly famous Miroslav Tichy. When you live the low life, it's easy to find interest in the ordinary. I like the idea of scrumming up a camera as a security device.