show off your black paint barnack

[rgraphex]

Thank you Erik! I'll just take it to Wetlar-trained technician here in Warsaw and he'll make it a perfect user. Those nickel parts are driving me crazy, they are shiny as hell, but I know a plating guy who can take it off easily.

Nickel can be removed with vinegar+salt a piece of stainless steel and 12 volts of current at 180 degrees.
If the flash accessory shoe and knobs are actually chrome. The chrome can simply be removed down to the nickel using muriatic acid bath room temp less then a minute. Use baking soda and water to neutralize the acid

 

[johannielscom]

My very early Leica II, with two of my favourite screw mount lenses.
A 1952 Jupiter-9 85mm 2.0 made from Carl Zeiss parts, and a nickel Voigtländer Heliar 50mm 2.0.
The Heliar is like a modern rigid Summar, I really love it.​

 

[martinjames]

Yes, that nickel Heliar looks great and does evoke the rigid Summar. Too bad they made only 600 of them!

 

[goamules]

Here is mine, with a Hektor 5cm lens. Shot a roll through it Christmas I'll develop this weekend.

 

[David Hughes]

The picture from Michael is not so old because the cassettes are of the FILCA B type.

The Leica I used originally the FILCA A type. I have a Leica I that accepts only FILCA A and B cassettes, but not the modern cassettes from the film companies. The FILCA A was not entirely reliable.

KASAM's are late bakelite casettes (1933) velvet lined (Samt = velvet in German).

The cassette that David shows was a cassette made by a film producer to be filled with commercially produced pre cut film I guess. It is well known that the Perutz Fliegerfilm was very popular with Leica users in those years. The early Leica pictures from Cartier-Bresson were also on Perutz Fliegerfilm.

Erik.

I have also had problems finding (or rather never, ever finding) one of the three type C FILCA's. Thanks to the lockdown I have been reading a lot and found this in the 1933 version of Vith's book but translated in 1934 into English.

and a reminder of what they look like with the Ilford one standing in for the C1, C2 and C3 versions.

The C types were probably only made for a short while and then exchanged...

Regards, David

 

[Erik van Straten]

Thank you David for showing this.

Neither have I ever seen a C-type cassette. The B-cassette is great to use, but it is quite hard to learn its use. Now I am an old man I tend to forget things such as the procedure for using the B-cassette. I therefore adapt the baseplates of my Leicas with cardboard so I can use the modern ready made cassettes. Not so easy in fact. I hate it when the perforation of the film can be seen in the images. I always print the full frame.

Erik.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Here's a picture made with my 1928 Leica A (1). The lens still delivers an extremely high quality.

Erik.

gelatine silver print (elmar 50mm f3.5) leica IA

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Ordered this one Friday.

A repainted, reskinned, Leica I(A) from 1930

(will need to order a new shutter button collar from Nobby Sparrow for it)

 

[Erik van Straten]

Congratulations, Rick! The covering looks a bit like the calf-skin on the "Leanekalb".

Funny to see the focusing ring in black, quite nice actually.

Erik.

Leanekalb (covering in calf-leather)

 

[Erik van Straten]

Leica I 6535.


Erik.

 

[Dralowid]

(will need to order a new shutter button collar from Nobby Sparrow for it)

You can always make one using the ring that holds the tyre valve in place on an older style bicycle.

I have been experimenting with iodine. It blackens brass. Doesn't look false, just like old wear that has gone black with time.

 

[David Hughes]

You can always make one using the ring that holds the tyre valve in place on an older style bicycle.

I have been experimenting with iodine. It blackens brass. Doesn't look false, just like old wear that has gone black with time.

Hmmm, I am thinking about FILCAs in black... Alas, being old I am locked up, by Govt. order, and no chance of time off for good behaviour. So no chance of experimenting. And that reminds me there are other ways of turning brass black but I can't think of any of them at the moment.

Regards, David

 

[Erik van Straten]

FILCAs in black... Alas, being old I am locked up, by Govt. order, and no chance of time off for good behaviour. So no chance of experimenting. And that reminds me there are other ways of turning brass black but I can't think of any of them at the moment.

You can order Birchwood Casey "Brass Black" via the internet.

Erik.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Congratulations, Rick! The covering looks a bit like the calf-skin on the "Leanekalb".

Funny to see the focusing ring in black, quite nice actually.

That probably reduced the collector value a bit, good for us users. 😉
The seller has/had another I(a) to I(c) conversion on offer too with a standardized Elmar on it. For 50GBP more.

I know about the bicycle tire valve keeper rings. Will see if I need a chrome or nickel one first

 

[Dralowid]

The brass blackeners like those used on model railways are very good but the result wears very quickly. In this application this wear might be a good thing...perhaps...

 

[hap]

If your Contax repair man is happy with Super Nettels and also Contax Is could I have his details?

My Super Nettel is quite tidy and works flawlessly when I pour half a tin of lighter fluid into it. As the fluid dries out it seizes up...I have a Contax I that does the same...so we know what they need!

Michael

To be burned?

 

[Pál_K]

A 1934 Leica III with nickel Elmar. I used it daily for a few months in 2017 and 2018.

 

[Ambro51]

Working UR Leica Replica, serial No. 80, modified by Mr. Kim in Seoul a few years ago. Fully functional as a camera, it uses the correct Leitz 42mm Mikro Summar. The lens stops 4.5 to f16. Speeds are 1/200 and 1/300. Just a Deeeliggtful camera to use and an astounding image maker. It’s a real Kick to use Oskars Liliput Kamra!

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[carbo73]

My first Leica I (A), a 1930 model. It works quite well, and has the quite unusual detail of having not one but two former owner's names inscribed (well, in fact scratched) in it. Somebody called O. Kolda (or Korda), probably the second owner, and Bruno Maixner, probably the first owner, as it's name is place more prominently (and in the bottom plate, too). I'm quite sure I've even put a face to this name. For more information here:
https://flic.kr/p/2iHBueg

 

[Pál_K]

... I'm quite sure I've even put a face to this name...

Yes, I found him as well - a photo and short biography in German.

Nice camera with an interesting history.