Re: The story of a black-paint III(?)
- From: "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:29:56 -0500
Alex,
Enjoy the camera. First Leica I ever bought was a III 13 yrs ago - yeah I'm
young! Your wife picks the best presents.
Chris
New Orleans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hurst"
Subject: The story of a black-paint III(?)
> Hi all.
>
> My wife gave me a beautiful, cosmetically mint, black-paint Leica III
> for my big six zero last March - it was even older than me, but
> looked in much better condition!
>
> However, it needed some mechanical and optical work done on it, so I
> sent it across to my Leica guru, Malcolm Taylor, in the UK.
>
> He's just rung me to say he's just finished up on it, and it is now
> indeed almost perfect: new r/f mirror, new blinds, and the
> contemporary 50/3.5 Elmar has been coated and adjusted to couple
> correctly.
>
> He's also writing a provenance for it based on what he found when he
> opened it up. Apparently it started life as a Leica I, was converted
> to a III pre-war, and was then further modified by Leitz around 1950.
> Someone obviously loved that camera!
>
> It has a four figure s/n - from memory I think it was 4387, but
> whether that number was original or as a result of the mods I don't
> know. Anyone got any ideas?
>
> Anyway, when it eventually arrives I'll set up a couple of pages
> about it on my home pages. It'll be particularly interesting to see
> how coating improves the Elmar's performance.
>
> Best
>
> Alex
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