[rollei_list] Re: Leica and Contax
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:33:43 -0700
GK,
There were Leica IIIc cameras in PXs in Germany from the time that
they resumed production after the war.
BTW, Nikons have always used Leica type shutters, although they
had titanium foil curtains instead of cloth, starting with the S3 and
F.
As much as I have and love Leicas, I will not part with my Nikon F2.
jerry
TrueBadger@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I find it curious that in this lengthy discussion of rangefinder cameras that
> there was no commentary on the fact that the first Nikons were copies of the
> contax, and that the first Canons were copies of the Leica III series. I
> suppose this is too well known to merit comment.
> I was stationed in Korea in 1954-55, and thousands of both nilons and canons
> were sold to GI's thru the PX system, somewhat before either was that well
> established with distribution in the US proper.
>
> I bought a Contax IIIa in the post exchange ($187.50 as I recall, with case
> and a 50 mm sonnar.) It was a great camera, but accessory lenses never showed
> up in the Px, so I wound up selling it and coming back with two Canon IVs2's
> with normal lenses and a wide angle and a 90mm. The PX price on the Canon
> with
> a normal lens and case was $105.00.
>
> I never got a lot of use out of the canons, because I sold them about two
> years later so I could afford to get married. It was a case where my youthful
> photographic aspirations had overshot my equally youthful financial reserves,
> which were basically zero. After that I did not have a camera for about three
> years, when someone sold me a pristine M3 double-stroke for $150.00, a camera
> I
> still have.
>
> I don't think Leica ever showed up in PX's, although there may have been a
> few that got snapped up before I ever saw them.
>
> G, King
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