Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] ???: M3D and David D. Duncan
From: TTAbrahams <TTAbrahams@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 00:31:20 EST
 
 The famous M3D was a pre-production Leica MP. Duncan had 2 or 3 of these made
with the M3 finder and the M2 filmcounter and long driveshaft for the film
take up spool as well as the Leicavit MP on them. I have never been able to
figure out if his M3D's had the hardened steel gears in them that the regular
Leica MP had, or if they had the regular brass gears. David D. Duncan still
has these cameras ( he is a very shrewd business man, not only a photographer)
and I shudder to think what one of these would bring at a collectors auction.
Leica also made a similar camera for Alfred Eisenstadt at Life with the
engraving M3E. Ain't Leica Trivia fun!
Tom A ( Leo).