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Dralowid said:
Does anyone have a copy?
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Thanks Erik,

I didn't realise it was they were talking about the same thing! You kindly posted this for me ages ago.

Off topic but I wonder if there is any contemporary literature relating to factory Contax I revisions and upgrades, the application of the 'A' prefix to serial numbers etc etc
 
Dralowid said:
Off topic but I wonder if there is any contemporary literature relating to factory Contax I revisions and upgrades, the application of the 'A' prefix to serial numbers etc etc
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I only know the book of Kuc, good, but that is now very old, 25 years or so.

I think in Germany there is some serious collecting, but not much.

I've repaired myself two Contax I until now, a v5 and a v7. I've put new ribbons in them, Aki Asahi. They keep well. However, they do not open their shutters at 1/500 and 1/1000, but for me that is no problem as I never use these speeds. The repair is not really difficult, but time consuming. Highway 61 (Nicolas) gave me good advice.

Apart from the ribbons the camera is built like a tank.

I shoot quite a lot with a v4. Maybe that camera is upgraded in the fifties because it has a flash synch. The flash socket is beautifully placed behind the right strap lug (seen from front). This camera works flawless. I prefer the clean design of the early versions, v1, v2, v3 and v4. They look like cigar boxes.

Erik.
 
Took delivery of a nice little Leica today, that needs work done.

Started out as a Standard in 1932, but was upgraded to a IIa-syn. Oddly enough, most of the trim was kept in nickel, only the speed dial, flash dial and lens mount were changed over to chrome. And the strap lugs of course!

It needs a new shutter curtain and I've decided to do it myself. Probably will do them both. Might take me a while to get it right but I've got abundant spare time anyway. Supplies and instruction book are in the mail, ready, set, go.

Picture to follow. There's the early Jupiter-8 from my avatar on it now, and it looks right.
 
johannielscom said:
Took delivery of a nice little Leica today, that needs work done.

Started out as a Standard in 1932, but was upgraded to a IIa-syn. Oddly enough, most of the trim was kept in nickel, only the speed dial, flash dial and lens mount were changed over to chrome. And the strap lugs of course!

It needs a new shutter curtain and I've decided to do it myself. Probably will do them both. Might take me a while to get it right but I've got abundant spare time anyway. Supplies and instruction book are in the mail, ready, set, go.

Picture to follow. There's the early Jupiter-8 from my avatar on it now, and it looks right.
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Robert, I'll let the experts shed a light on the specifics of the conversion. But, that camera is 216 cameras away from Yevgheni Khaldei's camera (no. 257498) that took this shot:


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Factory conversions were offered from the very beginning of production, well obviously not the very beginning but as soon as there was a newer model to convert to (if you see what I mean).

This can mean that a Standard converted to IIIa in the 1930s can have quite different features to the same conversion done in the 1950s
 
splitimageview said:
Thanks Erik, they only offered such conversions during that time?
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No, you also could have them converted into a II, III or IIa, with or without flash synch. "a" means the addition of the 1/1000 speed.

Conversions without flash synch are much more rare however, because in the fifties flash photography became popular and people wanted their old Leicas to be converted for that.

Personally I am a big fan of the conversions without flash synch, but than in black.

Erik.
 
Yes, the 1/1000 was not really working. The same is true on the M-Leicas. 1/1000 on a classic M-Leica is about 1/750 in reality.

These old screwmount cameras have a really slow running shutter. The slit runs in 1/20 of a second from one side of the shutter opening to the other. In a M-Leica this is 1/50 of a second. In a Nikkormat it is 1/125 of a second. The faster the shutter runs, the more precise it can be.

Erik.
 
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