Great Price: Leica Series 0 with Barnack Pic $1195!

Erik van Straten said:
Stephen, with all respect. OK, the parts where produced with CNC-machines, but an assembly line in Germany for these cameras...forget it.

Erik.
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Erik,

It's of no interest to me what your personal beliefs are. What I do care about is misinformation in the RFF forum. I know the people at Leica. No offense, but speculation the Series 0 replicas were made in Russia is way beyond ridiculous. It would be more believable to think they were produced by Barnack's ghost.

Stephen
 
CameraQuest said:
Erik,

It's of no interest to me what your personal beliefs are. What I do care about is misinformation in the RFF forum. I know the people at Leica. No offense, but speculation the Series 0 replicas were made in Russia is way beyond ridiculous. It would be more believable to think they were produced by Barnack's ghost.

Stephen
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It is your personal belief against mine, I think. No problem.

Erik.
 
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Erik van Straten said:
No, but I am close to someone who was an apprentice in the Leitz-factory in 1958. He knows many people of Leitz who still live in and around Wetzlar. He visited the factory recently.

Erik.
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Dear Erik,

Fair enough. I have watched M8s being assembled, but not MP or M7. On the other hand they showed me what purported to be the MP/M7 production line, and I have no reason to believe they were lying.

They did not say (nor did I ask) where apprentices were trained, but they could work as well in Portugal as in Solms. My understanding is that the heavy 'metal bashing' (including eg CNC milling of top plates) is done in Portugal and the assembly in Solms. These would be different apprenticeships but I certainly saw young trainees or apprentices at Solms.

Someone who was an apprentice in 1958 is talking about 51 years ago. Are you sure that (a) you are representing his memories correctly and (b) that there is no bias in what he tells you? We all have selective memories, and believe what we want to believe, and I do not exclude myself.

Thanks for the kind words about 35mm Still Camera.

Cheers,

R.
 
For Leica to clone the Barnacks in Russia is photographic suicide. They were already on the ropes wit Midland and the Portugese connection. The Cosina factory is more believable.
 
I knew these Italian cameras existed, but now at Westlicht Auctions in Vienna an Italian Leica 0 seems to have been auctioned. Is this the answer of the question where the Leica 0 cameras, marketed by Leica, come from?

http://www.westlicht-auction.com/ind...60851&_ssl=off

Does ayone knows what's happening here? Certainly Leica did take a good look at this one, mr. Head Bartender.

Erik
 
It is secured by screws, 1jz. It can therefore be removed, but you'll have to fill the screwholes in with wax otherwise your film will be fogged by the light coming through them.

This is with a Leica I with an Elmar 50mm f/3.5 on Tmax400 printed on Ilford MGIV fb.

Erik.

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Hi,

Well, with an original catalogue you can read Leitz's or Leica's opinion and quote it on these forums. Then you'll discover that they often got it wrong, even in their instruction books. Or rather you'll find several to argue with you when you quote them.

As for selling it, I tried to sell one a while ago and no one bit. But you may be lucky on ebay or you may not.
 
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