My favourite LTM is an M4 with bayonet adapters

[Vickko]

My favourite LTM is an M4 with bayonet adapters.

I was out shooting with a IIIf today, and you know, the dual window viewing and focusing, the knob advance, the two shutter dials, was just causing a little more frustration than usual. Not to mention the film trimming and takeup spool.

Made me wish I had my M4 - really nice framelines, same window for viewing and focusing, lever advance, easy film loading.....

And the M4 isn't a lot bigger than the IIIf. Okay, it is a little bigger.

....Vick

 

[johannielscom]

My favorite is an M3 with 28/90 adapter. I mount an 80mm Sankyo Optical Komura, a 50mm Perfex Wollensak Velostigmat and a 28mm Canon on that one adapter, the Canon with a finder. The M3 always shows the 50mm frame, remember?

The runner up is a 1938 IIIa in kinda non-standard issue: factory converted to IIIa-sync, gray leather and M4 film speed dial on the rear.

 

[ferider]

You should try a Canon P. A bit like an LTM M4 with 1:1 finder and quiet metal shutter. And dirt cheap for no reason.

 

[StaaleS]

I'm in Prague now with an M3 and an M5 and a 1933 Leica III and a beastly Canon 1Ds2... ran a couple films through the III the other day while shambling around the alleys of this city, focusing a 50 Heliar with some difficulty, metering by guess and by God and composing with a 25 Snapshot-Skopar by pointing the camera in the generally correct compass direction and... generally having the time of my, it was such fun!

The Ms are better cameras, but the III is so tiny and just outright cute and is older than my father and still works like a charm, and all that...

But, yeah... bayonet adapters; me like. Couldn't use my Summar on the Ms without them, for example.

 

[Vickko]

No wonder my IIIf felt so funny - many of the screws were loose - including the lens mount flange screws. I tightened them up - maybe the camera will feel better tomorrow.

At least it got a good caressing tonight.


....Vick