Sitting at home in more or less confinement, I started looking through
my images for ones that seemed significant. This one caught my eye. It
was taken about 13 years ago, but has much more history. I began to get
the photography bug in 1951, but could only afford a Kodak Brownie. As a
young USAF Lt. with a wife to support, new photo gear was a dream. I
spent some of my free time in Trader Horn's used camera area of the
Salem Camera Shop near our apartment in Dayton, Ohio, watching for a
buying opportunity. I finally found a used Leica IIIa with a new focal
plane shutter and a coated Elmar 50/3.5 lens that I couldn't resist.
Researching the serial number told me it probably started life around
1934 as a Leica III, and was later factory converted to a IIIa with the
addition of a top shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second.
This camera introduced me to a life-long hobby that has taken me through
a number of cameras and systems, but, the quality of its images was
first class. The early images are just as sharp as the ones I make today.
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210126-2006_0219LeicaIIIa0003small.JPG.html
Polished up in Lightroom and Photoshop.
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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