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memphis
10-14-2007, 06:13
http://cgi.ebay.com/Leica-IIIF-Red-Dial-GOLD-PLATED-OUTFIT_W0QQitemZ140165032133QQihZ004QQcategoryZ300 30QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

they say it's the real deal --- ugly and wasteful if you ask me ---


it just screams street photography though...:rolleyes:
fdigital
10-14-2007, 06:42
Anything gold or gold plated is tacky.
danwilly
10-14-2007, 08:17
This seller has sold other gold-plated IIIf's. Anyone think to ask where all these cameras are coming from?
alternatve
10-14-2007, 08:24
It's probably real nicely polished brass.

Samuel
xayraa33
10-14-2007, 08:38
A lot of money for gold plating.
this will wear away like a snow bank in Timmins in July.
wolves3012
10-14-2007, 08:50
It's probably real nicely polished brass.

Samuel
Assuming the pictures are a true reflection of the colour (and that assumption is questionable) then it's not brass. You'd have a good case for returning it if it turned out not to be gold anyway.
wolves3012
10-14-2007, 08:52
I fail to see the point, in honesty but I'm sure it will appeal to some. You really wouldn't want to use it though for fear of wearing the plating off. Who knows how thick it is...or isn't! Turned a user into a display model hasn't it?
dee
10-14-2007, 10:43
I would love an all brass Leica II / IIIc which I could polish and use - but gold plated = yuk !
dee
sanmich
10-14-2007, 10:50
Pimp leica... that's a new one....
gb hill
10-14-2007, 11:15
I think it deValues the camera myself. The chrome/silver I think is so much nicer.Especially with that black sharkskin leather I think it's called.
MichaelHarris
10-14-2007, 18:37
ACK!! I chocked on a McNugget when I saw that thing.
Leigh Youdale
10-14-2007, 19:57
Does anyone really know what the "gold" plating is that the FSU counterfeiters use?
It looks like gold when first received in its protective plastic wrapping (I have a fake Leica II based on the FED 1) but the milled film transport and rewind knobs soon tarnish and the rest of it goes a duller, redder brassy colour eventually, but doesn't seem to tarnish like brass usually does. (Maybe it has a lacquer coating??)
I though it might be some sort of nickel alloy, but maybe someone with metalurgical knowledge can enlighten us?
dee
10-16-2007, 12:20
The copy Leicas from ex-USSR are not plated at all - it's just the brass after the chrome is removed - use brass polish - it comes up beautifully .
dee
Kim Coxon
10-16-2007, 12:29
Reminds of the the "gold" Pentax LX which was actually produced by Pentax including a "gold" lens to match.
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/bodies/LX/LX_Gold.jpg
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/lenses/primes/normal/K50f1.2-Gold.html

Kim
Pherdinand
10-16-2007, 13:39
yuck.
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