Tip: watch the following youtube movie on how you can best do that. First the film leader must be extended (trimmed with scissors or Stanley knife), then applied to the film spool and together with the roll everything slides behind the shutter curtain. ![]() Inserting a role requires a skill to be learned, unlike other analog cameras, the film is pushed in through the bottom. The camera works with 35mm film rolls that are still used today. It sets the slow speeds from 1/20th of a second to B(ulb). Frontside of the upgraded Leica III, notice the little dial next to the lens. If you succeed, you will get the magic out of the camera put in your photos. You need to know about aperture and shutter speeds and a good eye to operate the rangefinder viewfinder. Everything is manual from the early days of photography. Also forget an exposure meter or focus through the lens. The camera is analog, so no software and no power source. Leica is the abbreviation of Leitz(sche) Camera and was manufactured in Wetzlar in Germany. Serial 139152 reveals the date of production, in this case 1934. And all in pocket format for the amateur and advanced photographer. It is a piece of ingenuity and intelligence, fine mechanics of the highest quality. Once you have had such a Leica in your hands, you understand why she has been treated with so much care and love. At 86 she comes into my life, almost scratch-free and still functioning well. A camera that survived the Second World War there and the following 75 years. You can find Leica’s all over the world, from Japan to the US, but Germany feels more authentic. ![]() Bought in a photo shop in Munich in Bavaria, Germany, a place that is also historically connected to the device. Photo: Albert Kampermannįor several months I have been the proud owner of a ‘Barnack’ Leica, the nickname for the rangefinder camera from Leica. The Leica III, mod f, originally from 1934, modified and upgraded in 1954 to the ‘f’ (flash syn). No wonder that this masterpiece by Ernst Leitz and Oscar Barnack is still the most beloved old-timer from the analogue era. Without this camera, photography would not have become what it is today. There is no other camera that is as fascinating and inspiring as the vintage Leica from the forties and fifties of the past century.
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