Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hoppy, here's something: _http://www.ozdoba.net/leica/schraub_IIIc_e.html_ (http://www.ozdoba.net/leica/schraub_IIIc_e.html) Someone may find a free IIIC manual but in a quick search I could find other free Leica manuals but not a IIIC... The best paid Leica manuals , other than Ebay, can be bought from: John Craig in Connecticut and Leon Pomerantz from Fingerlake books in Upstate New York...if you have trouble finding them, let me know...They could cost from $15 and up...Someone here might have a Xerox copy...regards, bob cole In a message dated 1/19/2007 8:37:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, hoppyman@bigpond.net.au writes: Dear LUG folk, this evening in an idle browse past a local camera shop I found a Leica 111 body for sale amongst the plethora of Nikon F100s etc being given away for a fraction of their former value.. Their expertise might be gauged by the tag which was marked Leica M body. Anyway I thought that it was reasonably priced and I felt it was my duty to take it home. It appears to be a 111c from 1949 and is pretty clean externally even the shutter appears to operate somewhere close to all of the marked speeds. Just guessing I know but no obvious slowing down on the slow speeds, nor any visible shutter curtain damage. The body is dent free. I mean the chrome is intact and the sharkskin? Vulkanit completely intact. Baseplate scratches and burnishing on the forward edge of the top plate. The finder and rangefinder will hopefully benefit from a clean. RF seems functional with decent contrast even in low light tonight. Not greatly clear certainly. So anyway, a user, I hope and a lovely piece of history for me as an M user. Certainly I will need to invest in a CLA. The aim is simply to be a user and I'd plan to acquire a reasonable lens after getting the body serviced. Can anyone point me towards an instruction manual? On-line would be great. I don't have any experience at all with the LTM models. I think that I have figured out the shutter speed selections. Also what seems to be a diopter adjustment on the rangefinder. It lets me resolve even very fine text at a metre or two. I have no idea what is normal clarity for the RF or finder. Do I need to be trimming the film leader? Any other advice would be welcomed. Lens wise, I had in mind getting a period correct Leica 50 (a coated Elmar 50?) or otherwise a 35 or 28 that I might use with an external finder. Again any suggestions would be most welcome. It's purely for pleasure and to preserve a wonderful old camera. Cheers Hoppy _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information