Gosh, Alex, I’m sure that I can speak for all when I say that we all do hope
indeed that you see the 100th birthday of the little camera and many more
beyond, too. :)
Question for you regarding your oldest body, which I’m assuming from your text
was made in the period 1926-1927? Since it is such an early model was the size
of film canister and take-up spool any different from say your 1932 or the
early M bodies? Asked another way - have the internal dimensions with regard to
the film capacity changed at all since the early years? I recently searched for
and obtained an M3 and an M2 from my birth year and it was the first time I had
come into contact with take-up spools in the flesh, so to speak; and that got
me to wondering about how much of the M design and dimensions were hold-overs
from the previous Leica bodies.
Best regards,
Peter S.
On Sep 11, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Alex Hurst <corkflor@xxxxxx> wrote:
He obviously was primarily a Kodak nut.
The great advantage for him was that people must have been delighted
to give him a lot of the stuff for free.
Sadly not a lot of my circle are offering me old Leicas or Nikons for
nothing, which is probably just as well as my cupboards (closets) are
brimming.
Yes. The fact that he had to but the local Salvation Army hall to
house his collection is proof enough for me, that he's out of my
league!
A good move. The hall may be worth more than the collection... :-)
I might be able to muster, perhaps 12 cameras ... most of them post 1970.
I do have one, from 1950, which is widely acknowledged to be one of
only two known surviving samples, but I don't need to purchase a
building to house it!
In real oldies I have 1926/27 and 1932 Leicas which still get regular
outings. I might just live long enough to see 4387's 100th birthday.
Alex
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