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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 4495750, member: 21309&quot;]Thanks.&nbsp; I&#039;ve more of &#039;em but no room to display them.</p><p>Yep, my mother gave me her Leica many years ago.</p><p>My brother gave me the Nikon rig, it&#039;s got just about every Nikon accessory produced for the camera at the time = big telephoto, filters, you name it.&nbsp; He said it would never take a good picture.&nbsp; I took it to the Nikon shop in DC used by professional photographers.&nbsp; They told me the light meter needed to be calibrated.&nbsp; They tuned it up, lubricated the lenses, now it works great.&nbsp; Many years ago, a friend who&#039;s a professional photographer borrowed the original receipt. (It was purchased in Greece in the early sixties.) Never got it back.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>addendum: I guy that traveled in my social group was always asking to look at my stuff.&nbsp;&nbsp; He wanted to take the Leica to a local camera show and get it appraised.&nbsp;&nbsp; Before he took it to the show he offered to trade a 17 or 18th (don&#039;t remember) century octagonal shaped pocket watch for it.&nbsp; I replied where am I going to glass octagonal shaped crystal for it?&nbsp; I loaned the camera to him.&nbsp; Got back a few days later. Later, I realized the lens was different the camera body did not have the same wear patterns as the one I gave him.&nbsp; The original lense a small scratch on it.&nbsp; The lense or maybe even the camera had been switched.&nbsp; My buddy admonished me for loaning him the camera.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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