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"32 years in a box"
A black
Leicaflex SL from Leitz Wetzlar, Germany
(80.995 of these cameras were build 1968-1974)
Serial no 1371464
My
Leitz Leicaflex SL in black, here with
50 mm Summicron-R f/2.0 from Canada
This
specific camera was build in 1973 as the 3.346th last Leicaflex SL to be build. A total of 80.995 Leicaflex SL were made in black and chrome, then the SL2 model was released
This one has been on a shelf in Bremen, Germany since it was build. A Bremen photo shop had it in stock till 2004 when the photo shop was bought by a photo chain. They wanted to clean up the stock and Photografica photo shop in Denmark was offered the camera along with some "new" lenses from back then. I managed to snatch the camera at Photografica for a very decent price.
The reason I couldn't resist this SL was that I already had a Leicaflex SL mot in black which I had sent to Leica in Solms, Germany in 2004 and got a new top plate, front plate and bottom plate.
As well as new buttons on the top. Here you can see the two together:
The original
Leitz Leicaflex, the following Leitz Leicaflex SL and the Leitz Leicaflex SL2 that was later replaced by the Leica R3 all have an extremely nice shutter sound and is build like a
tank. These babies will go to work like my other cameras.
Leica
SL2
manual [PDF]
Leica SL
manual [ on-line at http://yandr.50megs.com/leica/sl/sl.htm
]
Thorsten Overgaard, August 2005
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