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Aug 7, 2018 21:34:40 #
Nice shots! First guy looks like he has a Leica, lettering on the TLR looks Cyrillic to me, maybe a Russian copy. I think both are from the 1950s, but I’m looking at them on my iPhone.
Andy.
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Aug 8, 2018 07:12:41 #
I think it's a Leica IIIc, this was standard issue for the Wehrmacht at the time. Luftwaffe used them painted dull green I seem to recall, this looks standard commercial black and chrome. The double round rangefinder lenses are the trademark feature.
Aug 8, 2018 09:25:31 #
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jaymatt wrote:
Nice ones--is that an Exa or Exacta in the first shot? I have one of those, and a Yashica, too.
Looks more like a Leica or Leica copy.
Stan
Aug 8, 2018 11:23:10 #
jaymatt wrote:
Nice ones--is that an Exa or Exacta in the first shot? I have one of those, and a Yashica, too.
Looks like an older screw mount Leica to me.
Dennis
Aug 8, 2018 11:26:35 #
Aug 8, 2018 11:42:11 #
So I was wrong - The Leica is almost certainly a IIIc, appropriate for the war years; there are only a handful of the late war / early peace IIId models, and the IIIf should have a self timer knob visible facing forward in the first picture.
No matter how much I enlarge, and sharpen, I can't make that TLR nameplate out. The lettering still looks Russian to me, but the camera looks like a postwar Yashica.
I do love these little photo mysteries....
Andy
PS: Never mind, I just magnified it on a larger monitor. The TLR is definitely a Yashicamat, probably late 1950s. The lettering is just badly worn - you can see it if you blow up the next to last image on a large screen.
No matter how much I enlarge, and sharpen, I can't make that TLR nameplate out. The lettering still looks Russian to me, but the camera looks like a postwar Yashica.
I do love these little photo mysteries....
Andy
PS: Never mind, I just magnified it on a larger monitor. The TLR is definitely a Yashicamat, probably late 1950s. The lettering is just badly worn - you can see it if you blow up the next to last image on a large screen.
Aug 8, 2018 14:05:07 #
I admit, like several of us, I was also trying to see some vintage cameras like Leica 1939 model, Rollei TLR - but finding - probably only a copy of Leica, then Yashica TLR and Canon EOS.
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Aug 8, 2018 14:35:13 #
jaymatt wrote:
Nice ones--is that an Exa or Exacta in the first shot? I have one of those, and a Yashica, too.
It looks like a 635 yashica
Aug 8, 2018 14:53:26 #
Aug 8, 2018 15:28:26 #
I bought my Exakta VXIIa when I graduated from engineering school in 1958 because it was the only 35mm SLR. Being an engineer I was impressed by being able to see the image the film would see before I took my shots. It served me well for many years.
I was wondering about the Yashica TLR so I checked on the Web and discovered their first TLR was named the Pigeonflex and was introduced in 1953, followed by the Yashica name brand later. So, the use of the Yashica for a reenactment of a 1943 event seems a bit incongruous. I can only assume they weren't concerned about historical accuracy or couldn't get a Rolleiflex to use for the event, or didn't care... (I know, nit-picking!)
I was wondering about the Yashica TLR so I checked on the Web and discovered their first TLR was named the Pigeonflex and was introduced in 1953, followed by the Yashica name brand later. So, the use of the Yashica for a reenactment of a 1943 event seems a bit incongruous. I can only assume they weren't concerned about historical accuracy or couldn't get a Rolleiflex to use for the event, or didn't care... (I know, nit-picking!)
Aug 8, 2018 16:16:23 #
I'm sitting here reading all the posts you guys have written trying to figure out what cameras were being used - what a fun thread this has turned out to be! Thanks for all the info about those vintage cameras!
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