Leica LTM show off your black paint barnack

Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
I know the clamp "bridge", but could not find its code name.

An almost unknown accessory is the black paint lens cap with a soldered eye to attach it to the camera. Definetely original; the velvet on the inside is exactly the same as in the normal early (flat) black lens caps and fits perfectly on the early lenses.

Erik.


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Dralowid said:
Yes, from memory the accessory 'clamp' for holding the cable release on was something like FINAL or FINIS.
(One day I will find my old Leica literature!)
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Hi,

It was a "FINAL" and I wonder if there was a reason behind that name, as it's got the same meaning in German as in English...

Erik, I love that lens cap.

Regards, David
 
Hi,

It's a bridge that sort of clips on to the top plate and positions the cable release over the dimple. Taken from the Hove Foto book of Leica accessories, as I've not seen one and don't have a dimpled shutter release on any of them to make me go looking. Sorry I can't help more; I've looked in the 1931 Leica Catalgue and the Leica Accessories brochure but neither of them mention it. The Hove book dates it as 1925, if that's any help.

Regards, David
 
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I've seen this accessory on pictures, so I know how it works, but I was wondering if it were two different accessories with two different codewords or that the "bridge" and the wire-release shared the codeword FINAL together.


Erik.
 
Erik van Straten said:
I've seen this accessory on pictures, so I know how it works, but I was wondering if it were two different accessories with two different codewords or that the "bridge" and the wire-release shared the codeword FINAL together.

Erik.
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Well, I wish I could help more but looking around in books and so on, I've nothing further to report. I also tried a search in eBay's "completed" sales but nothing. Trouble is, people may have no idea what it is and call it something weird...

Sorry I can't help more.

Regards, David
 
lxmike said:
ok silly question but with naked eye how can you detect than a camera or indeed lens is a nickel variant,
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LTM lenses: the tiny Nikkor 35mm 2.5 by Johan Niels Kuiper, on Flickr

Mike, see the difference in the above image? The lens is chrome and it has a blue tinge to the reflections, whereas the metal on the camera is nickel and it's got almost a pinkish tinge.
the difference is best seen between the lens and the mount on the camera.
 
Timmyjoe said:
Has anyone seen Helen's black Barnack yet? I've heard about it, heard that it's coming soon, and heard that it's beautiful, but have yet to see it.

Can't wait.

Best,
-Tim
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re: Cameraworks and Me

Alan was Grand... charming
He was letting me buy a IIIf from his shop and then would do the CLA / Black Paint
I agreed, sent a deposit... waited 5 weeks and decided to ask about the Timeframe
it would take an additional two months once they started on it

Unfortunately he was so busy he could not give me an accurate time when the work would start so I cancelled the order

So i recently bought myself a chrome 3 lug M5.
Maybe when I have no care about Time I will do it and stick to it :bang:

I simply want to shoot more than wait for a camera... Silly girl I am

Cameraworks do Beautiful Finishes... Extraordinary
and are wonderful to deal with
 
David Hughes said:
Well, I wish I could help more but looking around in books and so on, I've nothing further to report. I also tried a search in ebay's "completed" sales but nothing. Trouble is, people may have no idea what it is and call it something weird...

Sorry I can't help more.

Regards, David
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Thank you David, for the trouble you've had. Maybe one day we'll know.

Did you ever expose a film with that camera?

Erik.
 
helenhill said:
re: Cameraworks and Me

Alan was Grand... charming
He was letting me buy a IIIf from his shop and then would do the CLA / Black Paint
I agreed, sent a deposit... waited 5 weeks and decided to ask about the Timeframe
it would take an additional two months once they started on it

Unfortunately he was so busy he could not give me an accurate time when the work would start so I cancelled the order

So i recently bought myself a chrome 3 lug M5.
Maybe when I have no care about Time I will do it and stick to it :bang:

I simply want to shoot more than wait for a camera... Silly girl I am

Cameraworks do Beautiful Finishes... Extraordinary
and are wonderful to deal with
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Helen,

Sorry to hear your black paint barrack is not to be. But that chrome 3 lug M5 will probably make the disappointment easier to handle. ;-)

Best,
-Tim
 
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