Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave, My first job was a kind.of assistant photographer or darkroom flunkie for a local, small town newspaper back in the late 70's. In a cabinet was a paper owned, chrome Nikomat probably outfitted with the same lens! That camera was a solid machine to be sure! It would probably cost well into the thousands today for such a robust machine! It takes much mental resistance for me to not buy another F, F2 or F3 just because of the 100 percent finder coverage! Curtis CB's Ipad On Jan 13, 2013, at 1:48 PM, David Lykes Keenan <ausdlk at gmail.com> wrote: >> Nikomat is a sweet machine in Black! > > Curtis -- > > Alas mine is the more typical chrome but it was my second ever camera (and > first "serious" one) and it still works. In its day it was revered for its > big and bright viewfinder. > > The meters tend to fry permanently on these. Mine did too but it was easily > fixed which is not the norm. > . > Dave. > > -- > See my 2012 Picture A Week (PAW) Gallery > <http://www.dlkphotography.com/paw>originally begun in 2007. > Please join my photography mailing > list<http://dlkphotography.us2.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=3d9dfbb5b18c4817532a37b90&id=4dd441d8fe> > . > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information