Leica. Help me determine.
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Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
It looks like the camera has a 50mm f3.5 collapsible Elmar attached to it. The long lens on the left looks like a 90mm and the one directly in front of the camera might be a 135mm. The thing in between the 90 and 135 lenses looks like a viewfinder. The camera's built-in viewfinder is only for 50mm lenses. For others, you need the accessory viewfinder, which attaches to the camera's top in the accessory shoe.
I don't know what the two things to the right of the 135mm lens are.
I don't know what the two things to the right of the 135mm lens are.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Before you pay for it, you should look to be sure the lenses, the accessory viewfinder, and the camera's built in viewfinder and rangefinder do not have any fungus in them. Old cameras stored in leather cases are often full of fungus, and that ruins the camera.
caspert79
Dutch User
Thanks, yes I will definitely do that.
Luddite Frank
Well-known
I wonder if the large barrel to the right of the Hektor 135 is some sort of microscope adapter / reflex housing, and the item to the furthest right is an associated view-finder ?
Livesteamer
Well-known
It looks like a IIIc. I'm not sure what the thing on the right is. Could that be an exposure meter fitted into the case to the left of the 135? Joe
Dralowid
Michael
I may well be wrong and it is difficult to see but the lens on the camera may be Russian, it just doesn't look quite right for an Elmar.
Not sure about the big thing in the foreground, almost looks 'C' mount.
Beware of being seduced by sets in fitted boxes. They can give the impression of being worth more than they are and maybe you are paying for stuff you don't really want.
Not sure about the big thing in the foreground, almost looks 'C' mount.
Beware of being seduced by sets in fitted boxes. They can give the impression of being worth more than they are and maybe you are paying for stuff you don't really want.
Ronald M
Veteran
90% of old Leicas are a money pit. Picture is such junk we can not tell even what is in it.
TAKE A PASS.
TAKE A PASS.
farlymac
PF McFarland
Mainly, you'll want to check the condition of the curtains in the camera, and what kind of shape that case is in. No musty smells, or dried up and cracking leather. If it's musty, then that will also apply to the camera and lenses, which means the chance of fungus propagating throughout the system.
But a IIIC or IIIF with collapsible 50mm Elmar, 90mm Elmar, 135mm Hectar, and the microsope adapter is a pretty nice set-up. Check with the seller to see if there are other accessories to go with it sitting around in a box, such as filters and hoods.
PF
ps: Now that I've given it a second look, the case may made of harder materials than leather, and might be an insert, as I don't detect a lid closing it over.
But a IIIC or IIIF with collapsible 50mm Elmar, 90mm Elmar, 135mm Hectar, and the microsope adapter is a pretty nice set-up. Check with the seller to see if there are other accessories to go with it sitting around in a box, such as filters and hoods.
PF
ps: Now that I've given it a second look, the case may made of harder materials than leather, and might be an insert, as I don't detect a lid closing it over.
David Hughes
David Hughes
The remains of a leather hinge and the lid are in the LH foreground, it (hte case) looks a bit damaged to me.
Regards, David
Regards, David
