On Monday, April 11, 2005, at 03:54 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote: > I'll bet that those Tessinas are leftovers from the first > production run in 1960! Has anyone ever seen one > being used? Seen one being used? I used to have one! I had the wrist strap for it and it was a hell of a lot of fun to always have a camera right there ready to go. And a motor drive camera on top of that! The optical quality on the one I had was superb. You had to remember to print the negatives "backwards", that is emulsion up in the enlarger. Karl Heitz still sells them, but I doubt any have been made for some time. He also sells new Alpa cameras, and we all know how long that factory has been shut down. Bob