Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/11/11

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Subject: [Leica] Nostalgia
From: lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:10:30 -0500

Jim,
I fully agree that the Barnack Leicas are given short shrift by the current 
generation of photographers. My favorite camera is a ?Leica IIIC that I 
recovered and rebuilt out of a scrapbook of parts. It is small, very sturdy, 
takes all but the latest Leica lenses and uses no batteries. It will do 
anything I need in B&W. Besides I get a lot of attention when I use it. It 
is a truly great camera.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Recovered+IIIc.jpg.html
But I confess that I have?succumbed to the lure of the Micro 4/3 format for 
convenience. I found that all my old Leica lenses could be made to fit on an 
Olympus digital Pen camera and work exceptionally well. The total cost is 
less than one tenth that of a full frame digital Leica and the ?pictures 
almost as good. At the 16x20 size I usually submit to photo shows, no one 
can tell the difference. Here is a Leica lens mounted on an Oly EPL-1.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Various+lenses+on+EPL-1/EPL-1+with+35mm+Elmar.JPG.html>
Larry Z


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