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Michael
Yes, old straps are risky and old vulcanite can be surprisingly brittle...
Leica LTM Let's talk Leica Standard
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Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
Godfrey
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This would work: The Strapateer Camera Strap Type D for Leica Nikon Rolleiflex Hasselblad
Not cheap, but very nicely made.
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oldwino
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This works with any strap you want. I use one on a folder from the 1950s that does't have strap lugs.
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Also, the Kenji half case has strap lugs built in to it. I used one with my Leica II
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Also, the Kenji half case has strap lugs built in to it. I used one with my Leica II
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Ken Ford
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My Peak Design wrist strap comes with a tripod socket mount, too. I’m much more of a strap person, I think a half case with rings is the answer for me.
Valkir1987
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A good leather craftsman with the right tools and skills can make a custom case. They usually do bags and shoes, but there is a good market for custom camera cases. The camera is well worth it. Fitting strap lugs is not a good idea, it decreases the value.
Ken Ford
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I did not purchase a collectible quality camera, so spending as much on a case as I did the camera does not make sense to me. Also, the decrease in value for a collector (already minimal in this case) would be offset by the increase in usability.
ddutchison2
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I had just consigned an expensive camera and had a bit of money in my pocket when I noticed this little gem sitting at the back of the store’s Leica shelf. Oddly enough it seemed to be working fine and the bodies price was just under $500 so I bought it on a whim - it fits in a small belt pouch and I now carry it almost every day, usually with the 50/2.8 Elmar.
What I love is the thoughtful approach it imposes; exposure, focus, even framing to some extent, all have to be decided before you ever look through the viewfinder. Paradoxically, it’s very quick to use in the street once it’s preset - almost like an auto-focus DSLR except you don’t have to wait on the auto-focus. Discreet too since it’s only at your eye for the instant you’re actually making the exposure.
This one’s a 1931 Non-Standard but the focus is close enough (2“ close at 15“ with a 50) that I’ve never lost a shot because of it. The viewfinder and winding mechanism are considerably newer than the rest of the body but I kind of like the fact that someone kept this 94 year old camera going for so many decades past where it would have been thought obsolete.
What I love is the thoughtful approach it imposes; exposure, focus, even framing to some extent, all have to be decided before you ever look through the viewfinder. Paradoxically, it’s very quick to use in the street once it’s preset - almost like an auto-focus DSLR except you don’t have to wait on the auto-focus. Discreet too since it’s only at your eye for the instant you’re actually making the exposure.
This one’s a 1931 Non-Standard but the focus is close enough (2“ close at 15“ with a 50) that I’ve never lost a shot because of it. The viewfinder and winding mechanism are considerably newer than the rest of the body but I kind of like the fact that someone kept this 94 year old camera going for so many decades past where it would have been thought obsolete.
Ken Ford
Refuses to suffer fools
I have always gotten great satisfaction out of using scale focus cameras going back to my first non-Instamatic camera - a Speed Graphic, a Pen S that was lent to me as a young teen, my great-grandmother’s Argus A and the Retina 1a I carried in my briefcase for many years. I know this Standard will be just as rewarding.
Muggins
Junk magnet
You can get the bits, even including tools, to rustle up a leather wrist strap pretty cheaply and easily, though I must confess that my Contax is so heavy I use the paracord one even though the leather one looks better.
Shac
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Ken - I wonder if that only applied to the Standard? But that would be strange as the bodies were basically the same - except for the rangefinder.
I bought a couple of lugs and got the late Leica repairman Horst in Vancouver, to add them to my II(D) - they work just fine
Ken Ford
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He said the issue was that Leica lugs were brass and riveted, the ones he can get now are steel - the tool used for Leica lugs would be damaged trying to rivet them. DAG used to have lugs with threaded studs but they are all gone.
Shac
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Ken - I forget whether the lugs I got were riveted or screw. Pretty sure they were steel though, so likely threaded.
Ken Ford
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It arrived and looks great. My plan is to put a roll or two through it and then send it off to the spa:
Per Puts, both body and lens are 1937.
Per Puts, both body and lens are 1937.
Shac
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Looks in excellent condition Ken
Ken Ford
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It seems to be! A little chrome spotting and some lens haze, but it sounds and feels great. It has a name lightly scratched into the bottom in two places, but even though my name isn’t “John” it’s not objectionable. (It was disclosed before sale.) I suspect that knocked a fair amount off the value.
I’m hoping the lens cleans up, shooting with uncoated glass is a pleasure. Plus I’d like to find a coated LTM Nikkor to use on it, too.
I’m hoping the lens cleans up, shooting with uncoated glass is a pleasure. Plus I’d like to find a coated LTM Nikkor to use on it, too.
Shac
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This is my 1934 Standard with the lovely little LTM 35/2.5 Nikkor
Dralowid
Michael
Somewhere I have seen a I or Standard with a fixed 35mm finder recognisable by the front element of the original finder being larger.
Holy grail?
Holy grail?
Ken Ford
Refuses to suffer fools
Were they common? I haven’t heard of 35mm fixed finders before - but I’m just starting on my Standard journey. I feel myself falling down the rabbit hole…
Valkir1987
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Looks mint, the vulcanite and chrome is almost new. Congrats on finding such a nice example.
Dralowid
Michael
Absolutely not common and I think I saw it for sale at Westlicht. Forget I ever mentioned it!
Just checked in Laney. He mentions a few Standards made with a 35mm finder. In effect this is a variation of WEISU fixed in place of the standard 50mm finder.
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