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Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
Erik van Straten said:
The dot on the release button helps to see if there is any film on the sprockets wile rewinding the film. I never saw a dot on a release button of a conversion before.
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I've always wondered about that little dot. So it points in a different direction when there's no film in the camera, then?

Dralowid said:
I would suggest that all chrome small speed dials say 1-20. I think you only see 20 on the larger dial and then only in nickel
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Perhaps they picked the smaller 1-20 dial because the bigger one doesn't exist in chrome and wouldn't match the other dials? Or maybe they were low on parts when the camera came in for upgrade, haha.

Dralowid said:
This one has just had its shutter blinds replaced, the old ones looked like they had been painted with a rubber solution.

The conversion uses the 'higher' top housing (see screw by shutter dial) and I think uses the original body since the depression milled for a circular pressure plate has been machined out to take the later type.

f16 coated Elmar seems appropriate and I am quite proud of the black hood...


Don't throw old cases away, once they have fallen apart they have another life as a half case!

Michael
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Wow that's a beautiful camera! And there are only 286 numbers between it and mine, cool!

And you have that nice ring around the shutter release. Mine is missing that - can one buy them somewhere?

The hood is really nice 😀
 
philipus said:
I've always wondered about that little dot. So it points in a different direction when there's no film in the camera, then?
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No Philipus, you can see the shutter button rotate with rewinding as long as the perforations in the film are sitting on the teeth of the winding axle. The button stops rotating when the film is completely rewound.
 
Dralowid said:
I would suggest that all chrome small speed dials say 1-20. I think you only see 20 on the larger dial and then only in nickel...but I may well be wrong...

Michael
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Hi Michael,

This time you are wrong!

Erik.

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Philipus,

Try to collect those low threaded rings on the valves on bicycle tyres.
They have little differences in their threading and diameters and every now and then I find one that threads onto a Leica shutter release just fine. They are a bit less high but you can find them in nickel and chrome and some have knurling that is identical to the other Leica knobs!

I have one on my 1932 Leica II and it fits real nice. Tomorrow I'll try to upload a shot
 
Erik, I stand corrected! Foiled by another concersion...

Johan, good to see you've joined the exclusive bicycle valve set, congratulations but beware, the thread on some is not quite right and they can seize tight!

Michael
 
buzzardkid said:
Philipus,

Try to collect those low threaded rings on the valves on bicycle tyres.
They have little differences in their threading and diameters and every now and then I find one that threads onto a Leica shutter release just fine. They are a bit less high but you can find them in nickel and chrome and some have knurling that is identical to the other Leica knobs!

I have one on my 1932 Leica II and it fits real nice. Tomorrow I'll try to upload a shot
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Thanks very much for the tip, Johan. I might even have one of those at home actually.

greyelm said:
You can get a collar from here.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leica-shu...691467293?pt=Film_Cameras&hash=item2569f5341d
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Thanks for the tip greyelm. Would that ring fit a Leica II, though?
cheers
philip
 
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Johan,

Yes it was my sale and well remembered on the account crash scenario! I was in two minds as to try RFF or Ebay as a selling place for the camera and opted for the latter in the end. I was mildly surprised at the final bid but, I guess it is a rare camera in super condition and Malcolm's work just finished it off really... I hope the new owner is really happy with it and he has got a nice investment there perhaps...?

I bought a lovely I to IIa sync like Eric's a few months ago and two cameras just seemed greedy! 🙂

Cheers,

Simon
 
Simon Bruxelles said:
Just a couple of thoughts on the ebay conversion:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170733073228?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Isn't this a IIIf conversion, probably done in the 1950s on account of the flash socket and sync control, rather than a IIIa?
I also hope the new owner intends to use it rather than keep it in a cabinet as I'm sure it handles beautifully after Malcolm Taylor's ministrations.
S
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Difference between a IIIa and IIIf is the topplate: look at an original IIIf which topplate almost resembles that of a IIIc: at the front the topplate encloses in part the lensmount whereas the IIIa does not.
 
You can also find that picture in "Great War Photographers of WWII" by Chris Boot (page 12). The photo was taken by Hanns Hubmann. The shoes with gaiters on the right belong to a Red Army POW. The pistol in his boot is not a Luger pistol as many captions say, but a C-96 "Broomhandle" Mauser.
 
Well, that's the worrying part. I 'd be the first to say it should be used as intended, but with all the talk of Summitars damaging so easily and with this camera being so clean I'll have to get over myself first. Ridiculous of course, but still... 😀

Ah well, it survived its first sixty-odd years pretty well, so why not the next 😎

Derk
 
I'm sure that if you get one of those screw-in filters to protect the front element of the summitar that it'll be just fine (if you are that worried). Or keep the lens cap on as much as possible.
 
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