[Leica] Leica 111c instructions

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Welcome to an intriguing club: There are a number of tricks with the  
LTM cameras. One is to load the film with the shutter open and the  
lens removed so you can guide the film with your finger from the  
outside!!! I don't think I have a IIIc manual, but I do have some if  
nothing appears in the IIIf and g line

Cheers
On 20/01/2007, at 0:37, G Hopkinson wrote:

> Dear LUG folk, this evening in an idle browse past a local camera  
> shop I found a Leica 111 body for sale amongst the plethora of
> Nikon F100s etc being given away for a fraction of their former  
> value.. Their expertise might be gauged by the tag which was marked
> Leica M body. Anyway I thought that it was reasonably priced and I  
> felt it was my duty to take it home. It appears to be a 111c from
> 1949 and is pretty clean externally even the shutter appears to  
> operate somewhere close to all of the marked speeds. Just guessing I
> know but no obvious slowing down on the slow speeds, nor any  
> visible shutter curtain damage. The body is dent free. I mean the
> chrome is intact and the sharkskin? Vulkanit completely intact.  
> Baseplate scratches and burnishing on the forward edge of the top
> plate. The finder and rangefinder will hopefully benefit from a  
> clean. RF seems functional with decent contrast even in low light
> tonight. Not greatly clear certainly. So anyway, a user, I hope and  
> a lovely piece of history for me as an M user. Certainly I will
> need to invest in a CLA. The aim is simply to be a user and I'd  
> plan to acquire a reasonable lens after getting the body serviced.
>
>
>
> Can anyone point me towards an instruction manual?  On-line would  
> be great.
>
>
>
> I don't have any experience at all with the LTM models. I think  
> that I have figured out the shutter speed selections. Also what
> seems to be a diopter adjustment on the rangefinder. It lets me  
> resolve even very fine text at a metre or two. I have no idea what
> is normal clarity for the RF or finder. Do I need to be trimming  
> the film leader? Any other advice would be welcomed. Lens wise, I
> had in mind getting a period correct Leica 50 (a coated Elmar 50?)  
> or otherwise a 35 or 28 that I might use with an external finder.
> Again any suggestions would be most welcome. It's purely for  
> pleasure and to preserve a wonderful old camera.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Hoppy
>
>
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