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Dralowid said:
Oh HuubL, what a shame, how could you?!

After many years of collecting conversions I thought you had found something that I have never seen before! I was worried that I had missed an engraving detail that the cognoscenti would treat as ' simply normal'!


It's a very nice camera. Did it come with that Elmar and if it did, is it without a serial number, in other words, was it converted too (maybe)?
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Michael, if you insist, I could scratch the comma back in and sell the camera to you for a nice sum.. ;)

The camera came with the lens. It's an unnumbered nickel Elmar indeed, and now very clean and coated. So I assume it is the original one that came with the I in 1929 and it was converted when the camera became a IIIa-syn.

Is that possible? The lens says 50mm; I thought Elmars of that period were indicated as 5 cm.

@Erik: googling Leica IIIa-syn brings up many more photos with plain knobs than with indicator knobbed cameras. So I suppose both knobs were used, or the reminder was only installed on later conversions. BTW, the rangefinder cover in your picture is old-style, not the "flatter" shape of the new IIIa-syn covers. Perhaps we should consider these drawings only as technical interpretations, not as actual representations.
 
HuubL said:
So I suppose both knobs were used, or the reminder was only installed on later conversions. BTW, the rangefinder cover in your picture is old-style, not the "flatter" shape of the new IIIa-syn covers. Perhaps we should consider these drawings only as technical interpretations, not as actual representations.
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About the knobs: could be you are right, but the 'reminder' knob has a separate part number and is indicated only for use on the IIIa syn. Could be that when the film speeds became outdated many knobs were replaced by plain ones.

I don't know what you mean by "the 'flatter' shape of the new IIIa syn covers". AFAIK, there is only one type, apart from black and chrome.

Erik.
 
I mean the slope of the "roof" underneath the speed selector is much longer than in real life.
 
Ah, I see what you mean, go back to the picture in my post no:342 page 14 on this thread , much less bevel on a conversion's moulding.

And then there is the question of the dot on the shutter button, the camera with a film reminder has it and the one with plain knobs, like yours, doesn't!
 
Ah, the dot! True, that's present only on IIIfs, the cameras with the reminder knob.

So, I assume there are two types of conversions: earlier (I presume) ones with the plain knob and no dot on the shutter button, and later ones with the reminder and the dot!
 
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My desktop image.

This was a IIIa that was changed over to a IIIa-syn and it had no reminder knob either.

Fixed the SCNOO myself and in the end sold the whole caboodle shown here :bang::bang:
 

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Dralowid said:
Ah, I see what you mean, go back to the picture in my post no:342 page 14 on this thread , much less bevel on a conversion's moulding.

And then there is the question of the dot on the shutter button, the camera with a film reminder has it and the one with plain knobs, like yours, doesn't!
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Michael, Erik, I can't check this as I don't have a IIIa-syn with the reminder wind knob. How does the counter proceed when winding? With just one little jump to the next number or does it do a full turn before ending on the next number?
 
Has anyone got an example (or even a picture) of a post war conversion from a fixed lens Leica I to Leica Standard or similar? Pre-war ones are relatively common.

Some years ago I think I remember seeing one, black and chrome, slow speed blanking plate, small rewind knob, strap lugs etc.

To confuse the issue I think some Leica Standards assembled in the US had a slow speed blanking plate but they would be earlier and mostly chrome???

Any thoughts?
 
Dralowid said:
The fun of all this is that it is dangerous to presume (or assume) anything...
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Yes, it seems these conversions were very unpredictable as to what would come out of the factory. I just found this post of a IIIasyn with nickel knobs (including a plain wind knob) and a dot on the shutter bottom.
 
Ey guys, I'm looking for a Barnack, which one Would You recommend?

IIIa or IIIc? II versions haven't got the 1/1000 and 1/15 speeds, if I'm right!

I will use it with a 28 Skopar 3.5 and probably I will get a Summar.

So.. if I pick a II (I think is smaller than III) could be converted to a III for fast and slow speeds?

Thanks!
 
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