Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > I fell victim to the lure of e-bay and bought a Russian imitation > Leica IIIa with an "Elmar" f3.5 50mm lens. It is described as being in > excellent condition and the lens is described as "not bad." The camera > was being sold by Adorama, a firm that I have found to be quite > honest, so I feel that I probably wasn't being screwed too badly. > Besides the price was less than $100. Anything priced that low with > the name Leica on it has to be a bargain. The pictures show the camera > to be a reasonable facsimile of a pre-war Leica and has a little eagle > and swastika Nazi symbol on the top plate along with a serial number > in the 19xxxx series. > > I know nothing about the Russian imitation Leicas. Can anyone > enlighten me? Can it actually take pictures? > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Larry, PT Barnum is really smiling in his grave! Jerry