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Just got this Leica II back from a repair and CLA by David Yau and couldn't be happier. Everything is so smooth.

capitalK said:
Picked up this Leica II last weekend at an outdoor flea market. Very clean but needs a CLA. Going to send it out tomorrow.

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IIIa with 35mm Summicron ASPH, IIIg with Elmar 50/3.5, IIIg with 50mm Summicron ASPH, IIIb with 35/2.8 Summaron Family portrait. They all get together once a year at Thanksgiving and talk about the good old days before the war and the E.U.
 
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My new to me iif and it's big buddy :)

The vulcanite wasn't in a great condition when I bought it, but I replaced it with a hugostudio cover, which matches up amazingly (the circular place where the slow speed dial on the iii's is still the original vulcanite). There was also a small pinhole in the curtains, which I fixed with some liquid electrical tape. I'll probably get the curtains replaced eventually, but for now it's a nice little user, and much lighter than the 'blad :)
 
A 1934 model III with nickel 50/3.5 Elmar. Also a IIIf.
 

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My second Leica III (I also have a black Leica II), a Leica IIIf RD ST, serial nr. 795XXX, made in 1955. It's engraved "J. R. Watson" on the back, a nice human touch (probably the first owner).


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And here compared to my Leica IIIb from 1938:



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crgrbrts said:
My first Leica was an M4; bought from Alfredo Olivera (Alfredo's Cameras) in New Orleans. That must have been around 1970. Alfredo kindly converted my plain Jane silver model to all-black using the same powder coating technique he was employing on parts of his Ferrari Dino restoration project he had undertaken in a garage next door to his camera shop.

In subsequent years I acquired a number of other Leicas including an M2, M3, another M4 and even (again from Alfredo) an infamous M5.

I moved away from the Crescent City in the 1980s and eventually ended up here in Washington, DC as a Capitol Hill and White House reporter/photojournalist. This -- sadly -- necessitated the one-by-one sale of my Leicas in order to purchase the requisite and insanely expensive digital cameras needed to pursue my vocation. The expenditures were not aided by the fact that the digital devices would become obsolete every couple of years.

At any rate, I've now retired from the DC bedlam and have gone back to basics -- and film -- with the recently adopted IIIF body and 5cm f3.5 Elmar pictured here. And, I am having a ball! I'm especially excited at the prospect of a trip next month which will take me to Berlin and Hamburg, among other places, where I will be able to realize my long held wish to shoot with a Leica in Germany.

It's good to be "home".
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Good that you have returned to film. I was interested enough in the beginnings of your Leica story that I did a search for Alfredo's Camera and found that the proprietor's name was Olivari, an Argentine obviously of Italian descent who died in 2010 in Hendersonville, NC. Wish I could have met him:

Alfredo Olivari
October 22, 1927 - October 30, 2010
Alfredo Olivari, born and raised in Buenos Aires Argentina, passed away on Saturday, October 30, 2010, surrounded by his immediate family at the Elizabeth House.

Prior to moving to the Hendersonville area, Alfredo made his home for the majority of his life in New Orleans. He first came to the United States after a career as a Foreign Diplomat, representing Argentina. Alfredo, once in New Orleans, had a brilliant career as the proud owner of “Alfredoís Cameras”; a landmark camera business situated in downtown New Orleans. He was constantly educating his many loyal customers in a wide variety of personal interests; from photography to European race cars. He was known to many as “The Maestro”.

My IIIf and Elmar 5cm f/3.5

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Had Youxin overhaul this late Leica IIIC (serial 5165XX), and then removed the covers, stripped off the chrome (with B-9's help - thanks man!) and had the covers redone by a local gunsmith in KG Gun Kote satin black. I refilled the engravings myself. Gun Kote is a firearms paint, and is a very thin layer so I had no trouble with even the serial numbers which aren't engraved very deeply.

The paint is flat, almost non-reflective, and is a great match with the vulcanite.

I think this camera didn't get a lot of use because the shutter was jammed when I got it. Everything on it feels very tight and smooth, looking forward to using it.

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I'm using these two IIIc cameras for a project. Both CLA'd by DAG.

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The Canon 35mm f2 w/Voigtlander finder usually lives on my M3 and a Nikkor 8.5cm f2 lives on that IIIc.

Best,
-Tim
 
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