Leica LTM My new (old leica),from Argentina

[Emref]

I'm now 60 years old, when I was twelve years old I started to make pictures with my father's Leica IIIc, as time passed it remained in a closet for many many years, a day I finded it and was in really mint condition, four years ago it was stolen (I know I should have saved the serial number)....

Now I bought a IIIF in a very good condition, I'm very happy to have a Leica again, in memorial of my father and make again analog B&W pictures.
SN 661328 (camera)
SN 796271 Summitar F5 1:2

Emref

 

[FrankS]

Thank you for sharing your story. Enjoy your camera!

 

[35mmdelux]

Gracias compartir su estoria - Suerte -

 

[raydm6]

Welcome! The IIIf and Summitar is a beautiful combination. It is my 1st screw mount Leica.

The Summitar is a wonderful lens and by your serial number, appears to be a 1950 coated version.

 

[julio1fer]

Congratulations from across the river. The IIIf is an awesome camera. Many of us classic camera amateurs are following on our parent's tracks.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Don't beat yourself up on not recording the SN of the stolen camera. Stolen cameras are rarely recovered, known serial numbers or not.

Very nice IIIf, by the way!

 

[Mablo]

Moving story with a silver lining. Congratulations for your new Leica!

 

[Emref]

Thank you all for the welcome!!!!

Emref

 

[payasam]

Good to have you, Emref. This forum has too many youngsters -- who don't know who was Bardot, for example, and who never held a meterless Leica when it was new.

 

[charjohncarter]

Tome mucho cuidado con su Leica nueva.

 

[robklurfield]

emref, enjoy in good health. and, make lots of pictures for yourself, your friends (even here on RFF) and your father's memory.