Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] ball park price for CLA on IIIc or IIf and lenses?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:15:05 -0500

At 09:08 PM 11/12/1999 -0500, R. Carter wrote:
>Last year I got interested in Exaktas for 
>a while (what can I say: I was fascinated by
>the little film-cutting knife) and they got
>three of them working, including a prewar
>goodie that has a fixed Rollei-type hood with
>a pentaprism that hooks onto the top of it, and peers
>down at the screen.  

Off the top of my head, I doubt if this was Prewar.  All such pentaprism
assemblies were postwar (beginning with the Carl Zeiss Jena model in '51
and ending with the two metered versions in the '60's).  I don't believe
the CZJ or later pentaprisms would fit the Prewar models of the camera.

Marc

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