Meleica
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LeicaTom - here is some Leica K data for you
http://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?id=64557&acat=64557&offset=3&_ssl=off
Dan
http://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?id=64557&acat=64557&offset=3&_ssl=off
Dan
LeicaTom
Watch that step!
Meleica said:LeicaTom - here is some Leica K data for you
http://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?id=64557&acat=64557&offset=3&_ssl=off
Dan
Thanks Dan! I didn`t have one of those "K"`s in my list
http://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?id=8147&acat=8147&offset=1&_ssl=off
LOT 12 in this auction was "the" camera.......
#390452K
Ex Leni Riefenstahl/Theo Kisselbach 1945 Leica IIIC K "Grey" from US Army delivery, she used the camera in the 1950`s and early 60`s and it`s one of the few times that a Grey "K" model was modified to IIIF BD (I saw only one other one in Frankfurt back in 1995)
Tom
PS: I guess the photos are too big so go click on the jpg. links
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landsknechte
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Thanks. You just made me drool on my keyboard.LeicaTom said:LOT 12 in this auction was "the" camera.......
Now I've got a huge mess to clean up. *sigh*
Dralowid
Michael
Great work this guide, but I wonder why the black dial IIf fetches less than the red dial. In the rarity stakes it quite a lot less common, apparently 8400 made.
Maybe this is because the IIfs are seen by some as being a lot less sexy than the IIIfs or maybe it is just because no one knows...
Michael
Maybe this is because the IIfs are seen by some as being a lot less sexy than the IIIfs or maybe it is just because no one knows...
Michael
LeicaTom
Watch that step!
Dralowid said:Great work this guide, but I wonder why the black dial IIf fetches less than the red dial. In the rarity stakes it quite a lot less common, apparently 8400 made.
Maybe this is because the IIfs are seen by some as being a lot less sexy than the IIIfs or maybe it is just because no one knows...
Michael
Well the Leica IIF Black Dial is s SLEEPER camera, my opinion it`s a real collectable....(very very hard to find original - without being converted to a IIIF or at least having a new top plate)
I had a 1951 that was Mint- with a EX+++/Minty "under one million" *radioactive* F2.0 Summicron 50mm which I got a $800 trade for in 1996 (pretty good then) but I wish I still had that camera as well as my "first" Leica which was a "matching numbers" 1939 Leica IIIa Model G with it`s original f2.0 Summitar 50mm (I sold that for a little under $300 in 1996 too)
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Dralowid
Michael
LeicaTom said:Well the Leica IIF Black Dial is s SLEEPER camera, my opinion it`s a real collectable....(very very hard to find original - without being converted to a IIIF or at least having a new top plate)
Agreed. Mine is 57xxxx and is original, including the comparatively crude 'economy' accessory shoe. It has the best Elmar on it that I have ever had. Not red scale or anything but just simply perfect with an unmarked barrel et al. I bought this camera thinking, as I always do, that I would trade it on for something else pre-war, black and converted. It's turned out to be a great camera to use and I will not now part with it.
Apart from Leicaflexes, I wonder what other Leica could be described as a 'sleeper'?
Michael
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