Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Yes! Years ago I had a Sony R1 - weighed a ton, had a fixed 5x zoom and pics were sharper than a razor blade. But most cameras can now match Canikon.

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andrec1 Loc: Tucson, AZ

Thanks everyone for information about LEICA. How did this thread change to Sony?

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Some people can’t help themselves. The have a need to redirect conversations towards whatever Camera brand they use.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I have one, my Father got it in 1945-46 in Germany. He also got lenses and other items. He gave them to me and I still use them, digitally, I use the Sony A7 body. The 8.5CM lens is a true wonderment. The camera (Leica and Sony A7) critical focus close perfectly even wide open. This is the lens that the German military was allowed to have and was never for sale or trade until after the fall of Nazi Germany. After the war, E. Leitz put it back into production and sale to the open market. This is the lens copied by all the modern lens makers today.

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

It's a III. Max shutter speed 1/500, widely spaced rangefinder and viewfinder eyepieces on the rear, and rangefinder diopter adjustment tab concentric with the rangefinder eyepiece. My father had one from at least the early 1950s, maybe the 1940s (he was an audtor for Shell Oil before WWII, and regularly traveled with a steamer trunk for his clothers and a suitcase with an enlarger and developing tanks and trays for the darkroom he would set up in his hotel bathroom at night.) He gave to me the camera in the 1970s.

He bought me a (used) IIIc and Kodachrome film when I went away to summer camp in 1956. It had a max shutter speed of 1/1000, rangefinder and viewfinder eyepieces close together, and the rangefinder diopter adjustment was by a lever concentric with the rewind knob.

Neither of these models included any provision for flash. My father had a 2-piece adapter with a cam that attached to the rotating shutter speed dial, which tripped a trigger that fittted into the cold shoe. The flash connected to the trigger.

I kept both of those cameras until around 2010, when I decided my switch to digital was permanent and disposed of all my film camera and darkroom equipment.

andrec1 Loc: Tucson, AZ

Thanks Timmer

terrys1943 Loc: Illinois

Leica IIIF cameras came as two versions. They both had flash synch controlled by a second "dial" under the shutter speed dial. In one the numbers were red, hence called a "red dial IIIf" and on the later one the numbers were black and the later model is called a "black dial IIIf". The camera shown predates both of these models. I don't know what the model is, but I know it's not a IIIf. Hope this helps.

terrys1943 Loc: Illinois

Leica IIIF cameras came as two versions. They both had flash synch controlled by a second "dial" under the shutter speed dial. In one the numbers were red, hence called a "red dial IIIf" and on the later one the numbers were black and the later model is called a "black dial IIIf". The camera shown predates both of these models. I don't know what the model is, but I know it's not a IIIf. Hope this helps.

terrys1943 Loc: Illinois

sent duplicate, sorry

andrec1 Loc: Tucson, AZ

Thanks terry

AndyT Loc: Hampstead, New Hampshire

Even though it's 90 yrs old, a Leica must still have some value today. Any idea what it is worth now?