Leica 3 DRP ??? What is it ???

[jean-marc B.]

My friend Georges Vaussy lent me his leica 3.

I compared this camera with my Zorki 1 for my website ( see "NOUVEAUTE" if you want to see this Léica 3 on my website).
http://sovietcamera.site.voila.fr/index.html
On the top of this camera you can see D.R.P. 😕 , What does it mean ?

Thank you

 

[plummerl]

D.R.P = Deutsches Reichspatent (German Patent).

 

[je2a3]

The DRP in that IIIc = Deutches Reichs Patent

Joseph

 

[jean-marc B.]

Thank you, can you tell me what GMBH mean ?

 

[je2a3]

GMBH = Gessellshaft mit bescrankter Haftung or the equivalent of Incorporated. Hope I'm not typing too slow this time.... 😉

Joseph

 

[ZorkiKat]

...in time, DRP was replaced by DBP (Deutsches Bundespatent). I wonder why the "R(eichs)" was still retained after the war. Postwar IIIc still used it...

 

[ZorkiKat]

My friend Georges Vaussy lent me his leica 3.

I compared this camera with my Zorki 1 for my website ( see "NOUVEAUTE" if you want to see this Léica 3 on my website).
http://sovietcamera.site.voila.fr/index.html
On the top of this camera you can see D.R.P. 😕 , What does it mean ?

Thank you

Hi

I looked at your site, it's excellent (though I could not understand French 😀)!

The features you noted on the Leica are unique to the IIIc and the latter III series cameras. The earlier Leica III (including IIIa, IIIb) and II, share many features with the Zorki. LIke the Zorki (based after the Leica II), the pre-IIIc Leica also had separate (and more distant) eyepieces for the range- and viewfinders. The front window of the viewfinder also had a notch on the right side, though Zorki had this extended upwards.

There is a comparison here, comparing a 1936 Leica III with a Zorki which had been converted to a black "Leica" II:
http://jay.fedka.com/index_files/Page367.htm

Jay

 

[jean-marc B.]

Thank You Zorkikat !!! In my website in " cartes postales " (postcards) you can see a cat. It's my cat and his name is LEICA...Funny, is'nt it ??

 

[Pherdinand]

DRP, Democratic Republic of People of Korea.
You didn't know? there was a LEica version made in Korea, all in red.

 

[Socke]

...in time, DRP was replaced by DBP (Deutsches Bundespatent). I wonder why the "R(eichs)" was still retained after the war. Postwar IIIc still used it...

Easy, the federal republic of germany was founded in 1949, there where no federal patents before.

 

[Pherdinand]

Ah, was that also when the Federal Bureau of Investigations was founded, Socke?

 

[Socke]

Ah, was that also when the Federal Bureau of Investigations was founded, Socke?

No, that was founded in 1908 when my great grandparents married. Coincidence? Not in the Twilight Zone 🙂