Wash your mouth out!! Don't sell the standard!! :D

I'm not keen on the timer lever and well I see the LTM and M as two TOTALLY different cameras, made by the same company. The IIIg seemed perfect for people who only have one or the other. Course, we're all getting a kick in the stomach from GAS so for me especially I hope I can keep the IIIc and Standard, then get an later on.

Looks like a nice one is about to finish up on the dreaded auction site... Leica IIIg (click) ... don't look!

Peter

To all who are suffering IIIg gas ... keep suffering 'caus I have one and I'll keep posting pics until you all sell your children to get one! :D

Seriously though, that particular IIIg came from Ash's part of the world via ebay. It was $1100.00 Australian (body only) which is about 450.00 in your money Ash! When I bought it the seller told me there would be a week delay in sending it as he wanted to get it CLA'd first (gasp!). I think I was damned lucky!

Holding that camera is the nearest thing to talking to God I have experienced yet!

:D :D :D

Damn you Keith. And you WERE lucky about the CLA. The one I handled was the closest any of us could ever consider truly MINT. The *only* faults on the camera was a tiny mark of brassing on the eyepiece corner, and another on the accessory shoe I *think* and otherwise was as-new.

They wanted £900 with the sum-something lens, or £600-700 body only I think.

Seriously, while IIIg is a very cool camera, I've found IIIf a much nicer camera to shoot. OK, it doesn't have that 90mm frame lines (with parallex correction), but it is smaller, lighter and just as beautiful (some say nicer than a IIIg).

Just yesterday, an old collector friend told me that he has a "new"-in-box IIIg that he bought new and had never used. He was offered S$5,500 (~US$3667) but still wondering if he should sell it. (I would sell my near-mint IIIg for half of that. Before anyone gets interested, Leicavit not included :p )

Man, this IIIg gas can be sooo poisonous !

yossi

Sorry Raid ................................................:D

Ash,

I LOVE my Leica Standard for what it stands for. History and Simplicity.
I just got back the Canon IVSB serviced,so it is "like new to me", and I have a nice Leica IIIc. These cameras are great little cameras for street and porch photography [new term?].

Maybe someone [with a IIIg] is lusting for a piece of Leica history ... send me a pm.


Raid

Keith,

Why [me] sorry ? If I post a photo of my Leica Standard, you may be sorry :D
I am quite happy with what I have, as I got a mint M6 last month only.


Raid

Too late for that .........:eek: :bang: :D

Heh... all this talk about leicas and I'm still swooned by my Contax! *ducks!* :D

Keith: You have a nice looking Standard too. Good for you.

Raid

So long, old friend...
 

When I bought this Leica IIIf from a commercial retailer on eBay, I paid way too much for it, having not done enough research. It came with problems the seller did not inform me of, but I chose to keep it anyway, and get the problems fixed. It was, in other words, an impulse purchase.


This summer I got my Bessa R3M and knew I couldn't justify holding onto the IIIf just to have it sit on a shelf. I loved the feel of the Leica, but didn't like the tiny rangefinder window, which is really tricky to use if you wear bifocals, as I do. And frankly, funky and retro as the bottom loading is, I always had to fiddle with it to get it seated correctly. And so, I put it up on RFF's classified, but there were no takers.

I put it on eBay a week ago. And I went with the familiar eBay advice of starting with a low bid to attract buyers. Well, guess what: it sold at the low starting bid price. The buyer was in my city. He came over this morning and picked it up. Very happy to have it. He'd paid $180CDN for a really nice condition, recently CLA'd IIIf...and he told me he had been prepared to go as high as (and had entered a maximum bid of) $425 US for it!!

There's a lesson in this for me. I paid more than I should for it, and gave it up for less than the cost of the cleaning, lubrication and adjustment.

It's grey and pissing rain and I'm mad as hell at myself.

That's OK. We all go through such transactions once in a while. You will have better luck with your next camera deal.

Raid

What do they say? ... "what you loose on the swings you gain on the roundabout" or something lke that?

Still ... that must have really p***ed you off .. bad luck!

:(

mc: bummer. Like Raid said, we've all been there. With CLAs, none of my purchases have been great "buys" except for maybe one: An OM-2 that I bought for $56 w/ brown leather case & 50/1.8. Sold the case for $40, got a CLA for about $120, then gave the camera and lens as a starter kit to my daughter. It could probably sell for the net $135 I have into it, but all of the other oldies I've bought and cleaned up would not get my money back.

But look at your IIIf this way: You have lost financially, but someone is now very happy, and that's good karma.

I'm sorry you are upset about the sale, but agree with Trius to try and think about what good feelings you have brought to someone else... I recently bought a Nicca + Nikkor 50/2 from ebay for a very good price it has given me more fun & rejuvenation to my photography than I can describe.

Peter

Interestingly MC, my best deal came indirectly through RFF ... check this thread.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...ad.php?t=30739

If I didn't spend so much time logged on to this forum this would have escaped!

Keith :)

I'd never put an item up for less than I want for it, even if that means the starting price isn't so attractive, otherwise a reserve should be placed. Jesse1dog sent me a pm mentioning your auction actually, if I knew it was there I would have placed a bid! I understand your pain, though. I sold some collectibles on eBay.. one of which was a anime figure that was in its box, over a foot tall which cost me about £30. I put it up for £5, it sold at that one bid to a dealer (could tell from the domain on his email address, and previous auctions) and I put the p+p cost too low so I lost money again! I know that is much less of a financial loss, but I feel your pain!

P****d Off!!
 

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I saw the body on ebay. I saw the bids that had been put on. I couldn't believe that there was no other interest. Like you I thought I had done a lot of research on prices before I bought my IIf. I was wrong too and ended up paying well over the odds. At least it works and doesn't appear to need a CLA - yet!
If nothing else I can feel for you. I didn't bid because I don't like the IIIf anyway - the speed adjustment isn't as easy on my fingers as it is on a non-sync body. Its a problem I have with the IIf.
So that's it. It isn't the end of the world - although it might feel like it. Nobody has got hurt. It was only money you lost - and possibly a bit of pride as well.
Today is another day. OK - you now tell me its still raining!!
Have you tried taking photos of light reflecting in puddles?
Go take some photos - you couldn't really use the IIIf anyhow. And it's gone!

Best wishes

Jesse1dog

And as a Karma balancer I relate this tale ... I bought a red dial IIIf from the bay and paid a fair price for it. When it arrived I cocked the shutter, pressed the release and the shutter curtains disintigrated! :bang:

Is that Dylan holding a Kiev ? I heard he used a Leica III something, but that looks more like an FSU . Cool pic regardless.

...very impressive beauty, it (she) seems unreal, new at all...

A very expansive jewel to buy?

Ssshh, don't tell him. The actual pic is of him holding a mystery RF I couldn't identify (see enlarged actual photo). Maybe someone else can. I, ehhh, "handed him" my Zorki.1 via Paintbrush for the avatar. :o

Looks like a contax/kiev/nikon to me

Thought so too, but that huge black rectangular glob above the lens kinda throws me.