Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lew, the crescent shaped cam on the rangefinder arm reveals it as a Fed, a soviet Leica copy. It may be worth usd 60-110 Best Ed El 08/10/2006, a las 20:21, Lew escribi?: > I just saw what appears to be a store demo of a Leica made for the > 36 Olympics. I don't know my ii's from > iii's but here's what I did notice. (Sorry if my part names are > off.) First, the body was 'open' so you could > see the film advance and take up mechanisms. The lens screwed into > a distance scale which in turn screwed into > the body. The focusing arm had a crescent shaped thingy to ride on > the back of the lens' focusing cam instead > to the circular piece I'm familiar with. The remainder of the body > was very clean and the black top plate with > sn and 36 Olympics engraved and painted in red and white. The > dealer claims that this is a museum piece, but I > don't know if I should believe him. Could it be for real? Any way > to establish its worth? > -Lew > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >