How much you say the m9 cost?

beat this.

with socks to match the sweater, this kid is not only an artist but a hipster boulevardier, too. very cool. probably the coolest camera on RFF.

Been wanting to do this for a while. Top, bottom, front, and back views of the M's

Al Kaplan showed me his Miami Herald Leica shortly before he passed away.

Akiva, any idea what happened to all those cameras of Al?

Hi Paul,

Was that Maggie Steber´s M4-2 camera? :cool:

Regards,
Robert

Beautiful rayyen! Can you show us some pictures with the Noctilux 50mm f/1.2 wide open?

Erik.

it's a start..
 

It's a modest start.;) Hunting for lenses now...

Classy Chassis

cool lens, heh? :D

Nice. How is this lens shooting wide open? I'm thinking of getting one for my M3.

Robert,
I really don't know!
I've been trying to figure out whose camera it was for the past 3 years. I emailed Al about 6 months before his passing and his response was as follows:

Hi Paul,

Very interesting! I've never heard of that before. The chick who usually shoots for the Herald in this part of the county might not have even been in grade school when the M4-2 was in production so I doubt if she'd know.

I've lost track of just about all the Herald photographers I knew back then.

What I do recall is that it was pretty common to use your own "every day" stuff, a couple of Nikon SLR's and a few lenses, you'd get an equipment allowance for it though. Exotic things like motor drives, fish-eye lenses, super-telephotos, and such were "pool equipment" owned by the paper.

Until the early 1970's you couldn't take photos in the county court rooms, but then the chief judge decreed that available light pictures were OK as long as the camera didn't make any more noise than a Leica M.

That might account for the paper having a couple of M4-2 bodies in the pool, and the timing would be about right also.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Al


I'll see if maybe I can contact Steber and see if she has anymore info about the cameras as I'd really like to know who owned it before it fell into my hands.
-Paul

I just got a collapsible summicron as well, this is at ~f2.8 http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonsa...ht/4635323994/
I'll use this lens a bit more these next days and upload the worthy stuff on flickr =)

I don't know - it literally showed up this afternoon!

Great to read some words from Al, in his factual down-to-earth friendly kinda tone I always appreciated so much. He's missed.

I go second that...

R.I.P.

Didn't knew him, but it was always a pleasure reading his comments... Thought... Nice, and intelligent man...:rolleyes:

I have learnt so much from this group of super friendly passionate people. Here are a few I may or may not have posted up before....
M4 just the body with the hood on and the leathers attached....
Taken with a non-leica film camera :cool:





And, MP with the noctilust 50mm F1.0

Lovely shots Matt. I don't think I could ever get sick of looking at an M4. It's the best looking Leica if you ask me! :)

shyoon, you know the M4 chrome camera has a certain appeal doesn't it. I love mine

Agreed, he'll be missed

pics of some of the lenses, don't have anything on the camera yet, but it's probably comming some day :)

the elmarit 28mm asph


the 15mm heliar


the 35mm summicron iv

My M6 Wetzy & Elmar with the new guy: ITOOY in very good shape.
You need to have a damn thin finger to operate the aperture ring btw...

Those beat up Ms only look good if you are the one who put the dents and scratches into it. I respect the heck out of it, but I wouldn't call good looking.

M3 BP+Summicron 50/2 Rigid BP+MR BP+ Black-Paint Cap


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