Leica Standard or Leica I

[Sumarongi]

Another variant: the FOFER.

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-wiki.en/index.php/FOFER

 

[Erik van Straten]

Yes, the FOFER had more precision because of the bigger wheel.

Leica 1 Elmar, focusing with a FOFER (hand held), SBOOI, 400-2TMY, printed on Adox MCC 110.

Erik.

 

[David Hughes]

I think this one is a FODIS.

Regards, David

 

[raid]

What are suggested prices for either Rf set?

 

[raid]

Who thought up these two names! FODIS and FOFER!?

 

[Erik van Straten]

Who thought up these two names! FODIS and FOFER!?

All Leica stuff, all items that were manufactured, had a codename consisted of five letters that was used inside the company. This had to do with a communication system not unlike a telegraph. "LEICA" is one of those names. There are hundreds of them, like FOFER, FODIS and ELMAR.

I love Davids set, but I can't read the serial number of his early Leica 1, 2471?

Erik.

 

[Sumarongi]

What are suggested prices for either Rf set?

Depends, where you buy it 😉

E.g.: http://www.leicashop.com/vintage_en/leica/leica-accessories/rangefinders.html

— I'm a very satisfied customer, but their prices are sometimes a little above my budget — well, I have a quiver full of children to feed! 🙂

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

The code words were for the telegram and Telex service; most of the world use morse code, before and just after the war,and letters were easier to send & read than figures. And there were more combinations and so more logic to the system.

As for the serial number it's just 4 digits, 2471. I reckon that's 1926, perhaps.

BTW, what's most interesting to me in the photo is the red lettering on the cassette tub. The 20's leaflet was a gift from a dealer I helped out with something...

Regards, David

 

[David Hughes]

Depends, where you buy it 😉

E.g.: http://www.leicashop.com/vintage_en/leica/leica-accessories/rangefinders.html

— I'm a very satisfied customer, but their prices are sometimes a little above my budget — well, I have a quiver full of children to feed! 🙂

Hi,

Just remembered and looked it up after reading the shop's prices. FODIS is the RF and case; RF alone is FODUA, or vice versa. Love their prices...

Regards, David

 

[raid]

All Leica stuff, all items that were manufactured, had a codename consisted of five letters that was used inside the company. This had to do with a communication system not unlike a telegraph. "LEICA" is one of those names. There are hundreds of them, like FOFER, FODIS and ELMAR.

I love Davids set, but I can't read the serial number of his early Leica 1, 2471?

Erik.

This explanation makes sense, Erik. Thanks.

 

[raid]

Hi,

The code words were for the telegram and Telex service; most of the world use morse code, before and just after the war,and letters were easier to send & read than figures. And there were more combinations and so more logic to the system.

As for the serial number it's just 4 digits, 2471. I reckon that's 1926, perhaps.

BTW, what's most interesting to me in the photo is the red lettering on the cassette tub. The 20's leaflet was a gift from a dealer I helped out with something...

Regards, David

Thanks, David!
This old Leica looks great indeed.

 

[Rob-F]

This has got to be one of our most interesting threads! It has made me get out my books by Rogliatti and Jim Lager to study. I'm pleasantly obsessing about whether to get a Leica I, model C, or the much later model Ic, or a Standard. I might like to get a Leica made the year I was born--1940. That would have to be either a Standard, or a II (but I already have a II), or a IIIb, or a IIIc (but I already have two of those). So maybe a Standard.

I could use it with my CV 25mm or 21mm. My CV 25mm is not rangefinder coupled, and the standard has no rangefinder. So they were made for each other.

Leica History! This is really fun!

 

[raid]

Realizing that film rules and that film cameras are so beautiful and so inexpensive and lasting, this should be a great time to celebrate film again.
Rob, get a Standard. They are so cool.

I am waiting for the Leica historian to get back with me on my camera. He wrote me back today that he will start researching it.

 

[Rob-F]

Something I like about the Ic is that it has two finder shoes. You could put, say, a 21mm finder in one, and maybe a 28mm finder in the other, and be able to switch lenses without changing the finders. If they will both fit at the same time. Am I over-thinking this?

 

[raid]

I like having two accessory shoes on my Standard. I know that someone modified it. I can place a meter in one shoe and a finder in the second shoe.

 

[Erik van Straten]

You can put an uncoated Hektor 50mm lens on it. You will get something like this:

 

[raid]

But you would need to first find a Hektor!

ebay: $1999 only

 

[Erik van Straten]

Yes, but this is a Leica 1 with a fixed Hektor, if it is a real one (I doubt that).

An interchangable Hektor is less pricey.

I have one, the picture above is with a Leica II and a Hektor 50mm f/2.5 (not for sale).

Erik.

 

[raid]

I don't know much about the Hektor, but I have seen nice looking images by it. Your Hektor images, for example.

ebay: Hektor for less than $1000 (not much less)

 

[Erik van Straten]

Hektors are nice lenses, giving a much more "old" type of photo than an Elmar or a Summar.

Leica II, Hektor 50mm f/2.5, Tmax400, print on Adox MCC 110.

Erik.