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Nikkor theme.

35/1.8, 50/2 and 35/2.5 on IIIc, Tower Model 3, and black painted IIIf (from Van Hasbroeck's personal collection).

Cheers,

Simon
 
Leica IIIa Loaded and Ready

Leica IIIa Loaded and Ready

Well here it is, my 80 year old Leica IIIa, loaded and ready. I have taken a few trial shots and for sheer gratifying enjoyment the reassuring idiosyncratic sound of that Leica shutter is unsurpassed, no digital camera can match it. My overwhelming feeling when I have the camera in my hands is one of privilege. In its 80 years this camera must have been witness to many remarkable sights and my speculation on to whom it belonged and where it has been is a diversion that is enjoyable but doomed to failure. Made in Germany was it bought by a German? Likely if not certain. The first owner must have been a keen photographer or why buy a Leica? It has obviously been looked after well and treasured by whoever in its lifetime owned it, (as it will be by the latest custodian) how did it make its way to England and eventually the midland city of Sheffield where I became its owner? Was it exported to the UK immediately or perhaps it crossed the channel in the hands of someone fleeing Hitler’s Germany?

The beautiful patina of the leather case is tactile; I hold it and feel connected to previous owners. Can objects be imprinted by those who handle them? When we hold something beautiful do we somehow transfer part of us to it? Certainly our DNA is easily left on things so why not aspects of our personality, our emotions and our feelings?

The camera already has ten years on me but barring catastrophic accidents I shall surely depart this world before it does and then what will happen to it? Perhaps someone in say another 80 years will hold it in their hands and say, “Well here it is, my 160 year old Leica IIIa, loaded and ready.”

 
Thanks David. Yes it's tight and undamaged, like the rest of the camera, and the lens!
It's an original set. The lens is also from 1938. I got it from a seller in Germany. Unbelievable that this has survived WW2 in as new condition.
 
Thanks!

Yes, they were very exact!
Only the right finder window is a silver one instead of a black one.
 

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A tribute to my Dad and David Douglas Duncan.

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In 1950, DDD went with my Dad's Marine division into Korea where they battled from Incheon to the Chosin Reservoir and through a bitter winter. DDD's book, This Is War! chronicles the fighting. He showed the world what my Dad and his fellow Marines went through.

DDD used a Leica IIIc camera and a Nikkor 5cm f1.5 lens and a Nikkor 5cm f1.4 lens (from the first batch Nikon produced) for the majority of images in the book.

This Leica IIIc is from the 1948 batch, possibly the same batch as his, and the Nikkor 5cm lens is from the first batch of 5cm f1.4 lenses Nikon made, assuredly from the same batch of Tokyo 5cm f1.4 lenses as DDD's.

Best,
-Tim
 
Timmyjoe said:
A tribute to my Dad and David Douglas Duncan.

In 1950, DDD went with my Dad's Marine division into Korea where they battled from Inchon to the Chosin Reservoir and through a bitter winter. DDD's book, This Is War! chronicles the fighting.

DDD used a Leica IIIc camera and a Nikkor 5cm f1.5 lens for most of the images in the book.

This Leica IIIc is from the 1948 batch, so it might be from the same batch as his, and the Nikkor 5cm lens is not one of the original batch of 973 f1.5's that DDD used, as I could not find one that I could afford, but it is from the next batch of 5cm lenses Nikon made, the original batch of Tokyo 5cm f1.4 lenses.

Best,
-Tim
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How cool


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