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Leica Screw Mount Copies Classic Leica Copy forum as listed in the book 300 Leica Copies, including but not limited to Nicca, Leotax, Honor, Canon etc. At one time there was a major part of the camera industry just trying to make a lower cost copy/dirivitive of the original Leica.

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How rare is Italian made GAMMA leica copy?
Old 10-12-2010   #1
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How rare is Italian made GAMMA leica copy?

Not very often to see this camera, very little information on the internet.
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My understanding is that it is very rare, @ least outside of Italy.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/iannorris...es/index_g.htm

I believe Luigi (of leather camera case fame) collects them:

http://www.leicatime.com/a000-italian.htm
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