Leica LTM Show off your Leica I/II/III/LTM Camera

[Duff]

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

 

[shawn]

Well, they are LTM but not Leica....

Shawn

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

Is this a Tower? What is the model please?

Shawn

 

[shawn]

Yes, that is a Tower 45 with what is, I assume, the original Nikkor 5cm f2 lens. I had Youxin Ye CLA it and it is a very precise feeling machine.

More details at:
https://www.cameraquest.com/nicca.htm

They pop up on ebay every once in awhile (nice kit on there right now) but are typically pretty expensive. I lucked out on mine and got it for about the cost of the lens.

The other is a Leotax TV2. Not quite as precise feeling as the Tower (when advancing film) and it has a bigger finder with framelines, self timer but lacks the 1/1000 shutter speed or the rear film loading.

Shawn

 

[jbielikowski]

looks like we have here "IIIc with black USSR J-8" gang.

 

[SpikeT]

Naked IIF

Naked IIF

P5250026_DxO by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

Bought this in good condition, but decided to remove the leather anyway. Pending the new coat, it looks rather industrial!

 

[shawn]

Bought this in good condition, but decided to remove the leather anyway. Pending the new coat, it looks rather industrial!

Hugostudio.com has a gray replacement leather. Might look really good on a Barnack.

Shawn

 

[shawn]

This will be fun....

Need to replace the Vulcanite but other than that is looks and sounds like it is running well.

Starting a test roll tomorrow.

Shawn

 

[SpikeT]

P6090023_DxO by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

IIF with Hugo Studio Moroccan leather.

 

[weihsuan]

IIIF RD-ST with SYOOM and SBLOO - Skin from Hugo Studio

 

[lxmike]

I first got a 1932 nickel plate fitted Leica II with an 11 o'clock Elmar from the classified here a few years ago. I have had some wonderful pictures from it. I had to fix the rewind knob which wouldn't extend, and the shutter mechanism works well at all speeds but is a bit screechy and needs lubrication. The front element has haze, but it adds to the charm and I will leave it.

So I got a later camera, a beatiful black paint 1937 Leica III and a good coated Elmar from 1951. The camera has been lubricated, but the RF is very dim and the spacing or the shutter or both are a problem and it will need a service.

Several months ago I was out carrying the Monochrom when I came upon a very young man with a screwdriver, lining up an old IIIc on a distant city building. We talked briefly, but he seemed not to have much time for an older man with a digital Leica.

Three months ago I went to the twice-yearly Australian Photographic Collectors' Society meeting at the Box Hill Townhall. On a table was a perfect looking IIIf with an indifferent Elmar. I asked the history of the camera only to be directed to the young man I had met near my house months earlier. He had serviced this camera, cleaning the rangefinder in particular and recovering it. He works for a camera store and picked up his skills on his own.

I bought the camera but not the lens. The camera is perfect. Probably has had less than a hundred rolls through it. It is currently my go to camera. I've mostly run Ektar through it.


IIIf by Richard, on Flickr

beautiful camera, interesting back story

 

[brennanphotoguy]

IIIF RD-ST with SYOOM and SBLOO - Skin from Hugo Studio

I've always wanted a Leicavit for my IIIg. Ugh.

 

[lxmike]

IIIF RD-ST with SYOOM and SBLOO - Skin from Hugo Studio

a combination of immense beauty and coolness, what a superb image taking tool🙂

 

[johannielscom]

LTM lenses: the tiny Nikkor 35mm 2.5 by Johan Niels Kuiper, on Flickr​

My only Leica, a little Leica II from first 1932 batch, the 208th camera made. The failing vulcanite was replaced with genuine Stingray leather. Nikkor 35mm 2.5 and Minifinder.

 

[Deleted member 65559]

That's a beauty johann, I consider a ii or early iii black paint with a small 35 or 28 to be the perfect carry around camera & those mini 28/35 voigtlander finders do just fit the camera.

 

[lxmike]

LTM lenses: the tiny Nikkor 35mm 2.5 by Johan Niels Kuiper, on Flickr​

My only Leica, a little Leica II from first 1932 batch, the 208th camera made. The failing vulcanite was replaced with genuine Stingray leather. Nikkor 35mm 2.5 and Minifinder.

what a lovely leica, makes me even more hungry for my soon to arrive black and nickel leica III to arrive, mind you its not as bonny as yours though

 

[Erik van Straten]

Leica III, Elmar 50mm f/3.5 nickel.

Erik.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Leica III, Summar 50mm f/2 nickel coated.

Erik.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Today I tried the Summar:

Leica II, Summar 50mm f/2, 400-2TMY.

Erik.