$4 from a flea market. Four months with YYE. It's a '54 double stroke. I was worried the camera was beyond repair. Nope! Back smooth as butter. Seized shutter brake, and recement rangefinder prism. Joy.
Wow! That's a keeper!
Not really. Eli wants a fully functioning M for $10. Pretty sure that it cost about $500 to get this one back on the road.
Those palm trees don't look like Pennsylvania!
Very nice restoration! An even better story with that price tag!!
$500? And the rest, as the Brits would say. $680. I was over the moon when Youxin said "...your camera is done". I figured I'd hear "....beyond economical repair...".
Not really. Eli wants a fully functioning M for $10. Pretty sure that it cost about $500 to get this one back on the road.
A great deal. Nice M3s are pushing $2K now.$680 for a now functionally perfect M3 is still a really good deal!
What a great find... was my first thought.
But then I started contemplating... If I had bought this camera for 4€, and I sure would have done so, my first great endeavour would be to get it working again. Never worked on a shutter brake. In case of having succeeded with the repair, I then would have to get a lens for it. With apt cam... Matching in price or so that camera. Something as rare here as that 4€ Leica in first place. Thus spending a 3-digit sum to get the camera actually working... Thus likely one piece more on a hoarder's heap...
Well, I could instead then sell it for 10$ to Eli.... though he likely would expect the lens too...
What a great find... was my first thought.
But then I started contemplating... If I had bought this camera for 4€, and I sure would have done so, my first great endeavour would be to get it working again. Never worked on a shutter brake. In case of having succeeded with the repair, I then would have to get a lens for it. With apt cam... Matching in price or so that camera. Something as rare here as that 4€ Leica in first place. Thus spending a 3-digit sum to get the camera actually working... Thus likely one piece more on a hoarder's heap...
Well, I could instead then sell it for 10$ to Eli.... though he likely would expect the lens too...
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