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I am a camera buff and have quite a collection. I would like to part with one of my 35mm Leicas. I have the original boxes and three lenses. Standard 50mm, 90mm and a 28mm. all with boxes.
If anyone is interested please check out the mags, and see how much these lenses cost by themselves and then make a reasonable offer.
DeeVee
Joe
What leica is it? m2 m3 m4-p m6
I suppose the 50mm lens is a summicron?
What about the 35mm lens is it a summicron or a summilux?
And is the 90mm an f2 summicron, (too heavy for my taste), or a 2.8 elmarit or perhaps it is even the 90mm f4 elmar -C, which was actually made especially for the Leica CL compact, but is a fantasticly compact light lens.
If it’s an older lieca like an m3 what is the serial no. is it pre one million or post one million?
And finally if you take the lens off you will see a little was seal covering a ***** at the top of the lens mount. Have a close look at it with a magnifying glass. Does it have a no. or a letter? This is crucial, especially if the wax seal is not there and threre is only a bare ***** .
All these things will determine the price. Apart from the condition of course.
Also the leica afficiando would place the camera to his ear and set the shutter speed to one fifteenth of a second and listen to the sound.
Did you know that when camera owners get together they talk about photography but when lieca owners get together they talk about liecas.
If you get japanese tourists on the island you might want to sell to them. m series leicas fetch big prices in japan.
Funny you should bring up leicas because I was only thinking yesterday how the ancient ***** mount 135mm f3.5 Hector lens got its name. It was named after the designer of the lens, dog, Hector. Thought I’d share that with you. I also noted that leica have rereleased the original “O” series liecas as a new camera. I’m not sure when it was first made probably about 80 years ago.
ATTENTION MODERATORS. I think “net nanny” is turned up a wee bit too high. maybe you’ve set it on “11”. The deleted word in my post (cleverly encrypted to avoid “net nanny”) is S.C.R.E.W. it’s a sort of threaded spiral engineering modification that enables the lens to couple, as it were, with the body of the camera.
Thanks for the reply. A short answer.
The Leica is an R4
The 50mm is as you mentioned, the 90mm is a Elmarit F2.-11806
The 28mm is an f2.8 Elmarit.
The camera was sent to the factory for an overhaul a few years ago. The sponge padding around the window indicating film type had just about disintegrated in hot humid, heat of the tropics, so I just had them do a complete job. Is just like new.
My aim in selling it is because I have a lot of Auto Nikon lenses which work with the new digital bodies that way I will be able to make use of those lenses.
An R series. You’ve probably gathered by now that I’m a leica snob.
While everything leica make apart from their japanese rebadged digital cameras are excellent. To many, a lieca is only an m (or pre m) series camera. I would never want an M6 purely because it has a battery and little leds in the meter. That is just not what leicas are all about.
When leica made the m5 in attempt to slightly alter the basic rounded m series shape that began with the ur leica in 1919 or there abouts, there was an outcry and they had to go back to the traditional shape for the m6. sort of like bmw, when they brought out an inline four cylinder. There was nothing wrong with the fuel injection or the antilock brakes but they quickly realised that they’d better keep making boxer twins as well… I think porche tried to get a bit cute as well.
but the information you have supplied would be needed for someone who would be interested in your camera anyway.
Actually I can remember a wonderful anectode told to me by someone who was at the conference in melbourne australia when leica unvieled the R8. Here was the new leica sitting on the table. The audience was hushed as the head of leica germany was about to speak. He walked up to the table and in a glorious sweep of his arm sent the camera hurtling through the air onto a hard surface.
Then he had it handed back and proceeded to talk about how tough it was. However it was still only an R.
The leica company are completely mad. But in that endearing tutonic way. Leica is a way of life.
My funniest experience was when the little plastic thumbrest on my tiny 35mm summilux lens came loose. I sent it to the factory approved repairers in melbourne for a quote.
It came to four hundred dollars. Two hundred for the plastic bit and two for the labour, as they explained to me that they had to dismantle the lens completely to reach the S.crew that they needed to get to. I phoned up the technicians in germany who quoted the part at about 3 german marks, lets say five dollars and that if the lens was dismantled in melbourne it would be ruined as they don’t have the necessary tools to realign it. I sent off a series of letters to the head of leica in disbelief. Red faced they sent me a leica watch with profuse apologies. Eventually it was repaired by my leica factory trained friend Jürg, who gave me the part and replaced it in about two minutes for a nominal fee.
Don’t ever mention leicas to a lieca snob, they don’t know when to stop.
Thanks for the story. I had an M3 once, it cost me more than my car,and I could not afford any of the lenses so I sold it to a German veterinarian who was visiting Montserrat at the time. I have been sorry ever since. Today I like the digital cameras mainly for the ease, although some are as complicated as learning Zbrush.
I found the R4 OK. I must say that I used my Nikons a lot more, mainly because I could afford to buy more lenses and filters.
I must post some of my hibiscus photographs one of these days, most were taken with the Leica.
I guess you think of the R4 as a bastard Leica, not worthy of the name. At least it has a metal body and not a plastic body as one gets on cameras these days, and it still uses the best lenses in the world.