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Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
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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
 
This will be fun....

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

Starting a test roll tomorrow.

Shawn
 
Richard G said:
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
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beautiful camera, interesting back story
 
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.
 
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