New Leica Screw Mount Camera Price Guide

what happen to the bids on the Zorki mock up of a Leica?
the bidders all got wise to it, which is very good.
 
Njugran went up to $250 and then got wise and cancelled, "Administrative cancellation". Next he unregistered from the bay. This was the second item he bid on. The first was a 4$ screen protector. Why am I thinking what I'm thinking?
 
Thanks. I learned how to load my "new" IIIf red dial with self-timer. Also learned that the price guide says my camera is valued at $475. I paid $350.

Life is good.

Ted
 
Hi Brian - funny you should mention the "K" model. I have actually located one from a military family in Texas and I will be the new owner in a few days. Its a painted grey camera with K in the serial # and K stamped on the shutter curtain...value about $ 1500-$2000 for the body. Here is one that recently sold on ebay ( chrome version )

http://cgi.ebay.com/Leica-IIIc-K-mo...ryZ98924QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem

and here is the grey model at the Kodak/Eastman Museum

http://www.eastman.org/fm/toronto/htmlsrc/mL53300012_ful.html

and finally, cameraquest article on the Leica IIIc K

http://cameraquest.com/leica_iiic_k_gray.htm


Dan
 
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In 1965, when I was in grad school in San Francisco, my friend Roy and I were wandering around south of Market and happened upon a pawn shop. We were both using Spotmatics at the time and doing freelance pj work. Roy, broke as I was, saw a beat-up gray camera in a glass display case and asked to see it. "What do you want for it?" he asked. Frankly, the camera looked like it had been rode hard and put away wet, as we say in the southwest. "I gotta get $45," said the store owner. "OK," said Roy.

I was amazed as I knew Roy only had about $80 until payday. Also, I was amazed because Roy, having grown up in China, never paid the asking price for anything.

Turned out Roy was a closet Leica wannabe and had been studying Leica history for years. When he saw the "K" he knew what it was. At that time I didn't even know exactly what a Leica was, had only heard about them.

I learned later he took it to a camera show in Oakland and got several hundred dollars for it.

There's just no substitute for research...
 
Dan,

Not too bad on estimates, pretty good and fair prices
I`d pay $250 everyday, if I could find 1940`s "wartime" Leica IIIC bodies for that much, though you are right they are rarely clean, that`s why I`m after them 🙂 in really fine condition.
(ohh I`d change the name to "wartime" IIIC while that`s what the collectors call them, instead of pre-war)

Speaking of 1940`s Leica`s, I`ll be adding a IIIC K "Grey" camera very shortly to my personal collection soon, one used by an Ex US Army Officer in Postwar Germany.

I`m recording numbers and history of the "K" shutter models and looking for more information (stories) about cameras used by the US Army in Postwar Europe and in the Pacific Theater Of Operations, write me off the board here sometime, about your camera, we`ll swap war stories.

Thanks

Tom
 
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Good stuff, sir. Now you just need to convince me that there is any LTM by Leitz that is superior to a good Canon IV... 😱 :bang: :bang: :bang:

William
 
landsknechte said:
I thought the K version was a cold (the German word for cold is Kalt) weather version.
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Well, here`s one story I`ve heard about the elusive "K" shutter Leica`s.

That they were developed shortly after the German invasion of Norway, not for the Russian Front, designed with ball bearing shutter curtains and shafts for operation under extreme cold weather conditions, there`s been a back and forth debate for years about weither the "K" means "Kältefest" (coldproofed) or "Kugellager" (ball bearings), I rather think it`s the second, while the IIIC K camera has 5 ball bearings internally as to the 2 of the fore and later produced IIIC`s.

Either way you look at it they were then and are now rare, used well and were a learning experience that went further into future Leica development.

Used by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) various Leitz technicians and by the US Army (post May/June) 1945*.

They were made in Chrome and in Grey painted versions, with black and grey vulcanite for each of those versions.

I`m researching more and more about these cameras, it`s a race against time while so many people who can answer the questions are already dead or very up in age, so my quest is taking me all over to find the answers, I`m very thankful for the Internet. 🙄

Tom

*in 1945 the US Army also supposedly took delivery of a group of Leica IIID`s
(IIIC with a Self Timing Device) this would turn up years later on the early 1950`s Leica IIIF.....but that`s a whole other story*
 
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wlewisiii said:
Good stuff, sir. Now you just need to convince me that there is any LTM by Leitz that is superior to a good Canon IV... 😱 :bang: :bang: :bang:

William
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Hehehe,

You are so right. The Leicas are prettier, but the Canons are functionally better cameras with their combined RF/VF.
 
laptoprob said:
So whatever happened to the model IIIe? An in-between model that got aborted?
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It was`nt used do to the sound of it in the German language, (drei-eee) that`s the reason I`ve been told Leitz did`nt use the IIIE model
 
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