Leica M3 experiences

[taffer]

No Canon 7 also...

No Canon 7 also...

And also it seems the Canon 7 is not going to visit Spain after all... 🙁 once you add UPS shipping charges and possible custom taxes, the whole thing goes for too much... Also, the credit card verification takes a lot of trouble for overseas, and fees for a money order of that amount are also pretty high...

Hey, I never had such difficulties with *bay 😛

But hey, nothing is lost. After all these frustrated attempts to spend "big" bucks, I'm starting to appreciate a lot more my bottom-feeding collection 🙂

If some of you are interested, the KEH Exc Canon 7 with non-working meter will be available again on their website for $265...

Meanwhile, I'll continue using my ruskies and my fixed lens RFs... this week is turn (again) for the SPn, which provided me with things like this one (yes, it's possibly the MOST strange bait I've ever seen...)

Oscar

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Visually stunning, Oscar! Neat job and nice way to do the trick of making a person taller than a building. I've tried this before and never managed to get it. With your permission, I'll try to "quote" you sometime. 🙂

 

[taffer]

Please Francisco, feel free to use and enjoy my ideas whenever you want 🙂

As for the picture... well, I spent a couple of minutes looking for an interesting composition, and found the whole thing simply too empty. But with the help of my always patient friend, and finally by lying in the ground (literally) I ended with this pic 😀

No, I don't use to wear suits, but I guess I'd finish laying in the ground if necessary anyway 😉

 

[Rich Silfver]

Jo, after this thread it just so happened that I got the M3 and you got the Canon 7.

Guess all is well that ends well 🙂

(Neeeed to send my M3 off to her first CLA ever soon. She's 40 years old this year and the old girl deserves a cleaning) 😉

 

[former member]

My M3 took 2 weeks, including Priority Mail up and UPS back, to have the finder repaired, dragging shutter done, and general CLA.

The "NEW" M2 will be going up soon; the geared rewind shaft does slip. On the bright side, it is a strong "9" and from the first regular production batch. Apparently, Leica made 200 cameras in 1957 and an order for 2,000 in '58. It could be an "Irish Twin" of my '57 M3-DS. The finder is perfect, vulcanite is perfect, and the top never saw a meter.

Francisco, does this mean I have to take the "EYES" off of the Summaron? It looks so "distinct" with them. Maybe I could find a 135 with eyes for the M2.

 

[taffer]

Jo, after this thread it just so happened that I got the M3 and you got the Canon 7.

Guess all is well that ends well 🙂

(Neeeed to send my M3 off to her first CLA ever soon. She's 40 years old this year and the old girl deserves a cleaning) 😉

True Richard ! And seems we're both really happy with our respective choices 🙂 However, my 7 took near 6 weeks to arrive as it was returned and had to be sent again. But... all is well if ends well 😀

Problems? A capping 1/1000 shutter speed and a RIP Selenium meter which I don't mind, some brightmarks from the strap O-rings, a dent near the PC synch, apart from that, no difference with the 600 EUR one from my local store, works and looks really well.

Let us know how things end with your new M2 Brian, looked like a very nice one !

@Brian: Do you mean the Summaron 35 with googles ? I think I read somewhere that it won't focus properly without the googles... or is it goggles ?

 

[former member]

The "goggles" or "Eyes" change the field of view of the finder and RF so that the 50mm frame lines will cover the FOV of the 35mm. As the M2 already has the 35mm frame lines, it should not matter. The distance to the film plane does not change. It may not key the 35mm framelines on the M2, I would have to check. In any event, I am not going to do it. "Professor M3" would be most upset. And it is mint.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Brian, I'd say you can remove them, but since the Summaron was made for the M3 (at least on principle), I don't know if it would bring out the 35mm framelines. It should, though... although I've seen goggled Leicas and they kinda have an intellectual look about them. 😛

 

[Doug]

Brian, I believe you're correct that the Summaron with eyes will bring up the 50mm framelines, then magnify them to look just like 35mm framelines. 🙂 So indeed the lens works as well on the M2 as on the M3. In theory, as I have a button-rewind M2 as well but have never tried that lens on it.

But from what I've read, the optical trickery of the "eyes" is matched by a different cut on the lens's RF cam. So taking the eyes/goggles off results in only half the trick remaining, and inaccurate focus.

 

[jdos2]

Erwin also remarks that the eyes did HORRIBLE things to distortion in the VF.

Oscar: Googles works for me, though I'm smiling as I type this...