Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/31

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Ig?
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Tue Aug 31 22:23:57 2004
References: <00a001c48f95$c9fbadb0$6501a8c0@ccapr.com> <1093985428.4760.12.camel@failsafe> <p05111002bd5adaac9ded@[192.168.102.100]>
 
At 10:48 AM +0900 9/1/04, Karen Nakamura wrote:
>I've never seen something like this, is it for real?
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3836002726
>
>It looks too real to be a fake. So it's the Ig (finderless version) 
>of the IIIg?  Didn't Leica have the M1/MD by then?
>
>Karen

It's real. I had one of these all through the 60's, mostly behind a 
Visoflex, and occasionally with a 35 or 28. As the 28 was a Summaron 
(f/5.6), there were no focussing problems. My 35 at the time was 
f/3.5, so it was quite useable as well.

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