Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim: I remember back in the late 60's and early 70's drooling all over a glass camera case full of Alpa cameras in Durham, N.C. I would not go through Durham without stopping at this shop. I was too busy during that time starting a career and taking care of a family to be able to afford one. To this day I scan Ebay and Shutterbug with hopes that just the right one will appear. Nice ones are rare and very expensive, aren't they. One of these days! Bob Bedwell - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Brick" <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 8:19 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: Contarex, Linhof, Alpa > At 04:57 AM 3/6/00 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >><Snip> > >I miss the cha-chunk of my Contarex Bulleye's shutter! > >Has there ever been more solid of a camera ever built? Linhof? Alpa? > >Mark Rabiner > > For many years, I knew, very well, the owners of Pignon SA (Alpa), Samuel > Bourgeois (father) and Benjamin Bourgeois (son). I visited them in > Ballaigues, Switzerland regularly. I spent many a day, in the machine shop > and camera assembly area of Alpa. The body shell (two parts) is machined > out of a solid block. It is not cast. I have a "raw" 10d body that just > came out of the NC mill that made it. I believe you could drive a tank over > the Alpa body incurring insignificant damage. Well,,, maybe not a tank. But > believe me, it is a strong camera body. > > Jim >