Cool, Jim! I took one of those over with me in 1951.
One of the locals was so impressed he offered me an old Leica
with a flop-down finder in trade. (That's how I got my first 'L')
Wish I had kept the L. 😕
In Chicago, I remember street photogs using Rollei's with the 35mm adapter
(Rolleikin?)
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Some of you might be able to recall, as I do, street photographers who
> snapped your photo on city sidewalks and then offered to sell you copies of
> the image. Their favorite camera was the Universal Mercury, introduced in
> 1938, or the Mercury II, introduced in 1945. A half-frame camera with a
> rotary cinema-type shutter, it produced 72 images on a 36-exposure roll of
> 35mm film. This was a very rugged camera with a cast aluminum body and an
> extremely sharp Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens, requiring manual scale focusing
> with no rangefinder. When properly focused, the image detail was
> equivalent to much more expensive cameras of that era.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mercury+II+from+1945.jpg.html
>
> Comments welcomed, and appreciated.
>
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> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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