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[OM] Re: dead of Cartier-Bressson

Subject: [OM] Re: dead of Cartier-Bressson
From: Roland Ruehl <roland.ruehl@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 17:00:40 -0700
Bill,

yes you are right, an M3 or an M2 (introduced in 57). There are modified 
M1s with a rangefinder but they
appeared later. No idea why he needed the aux finder. Must have had 
another lens in his pocket (which points
back to the M3 ...)

Thanks,

Roland.

Bill Stanke wrote:

>Roland:
>
>I would guess Leica M3 (I thought M1 was introduced in 1959).  I'm drawing a
>blank on the lens (first version Summicron f/2?) and why he has the VIDOOM
>auxilliary finder fitted.  The M1 had no rangefinder or viewfinder, and this
>body appears to have a rangefinder window.
>
>Bill Stanke
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Roland Ruehl" <roland.ruehl@xxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:41 PM
>Subject: [OM] Re: dead of Cartier-Bressson
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>>Looks to me like an M1. What did you think it was ?
>>
>>Roland.
>>
>>Piers Hemy wrote:
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>>>That (use of Leica) was what I thought too, but if you look at the
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>>>
>entries
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>>>for 1957 on this site
>>>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/JaneBown/JaneBown_gallery.swf you will see
>>>him holding what I think is NOT a Leica (and not a Kiev either, but I may
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>>>
>be
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>>>wrong!).
>>>
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>>>
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