Thanks Jim.
OTT I concur with Douglas, well worth an enlarged print :-)
Amities
Philippe
> Le 19 déc. 2020 à 00:08, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> Philippe, you were half right. It was not a Practica. It was a Petri FTII.
>
> On 12/18/20 10:30 AM, Philippe wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> Did you ever own or use a Yashica J 3 or 5 . The battery compartment on the
>> left hand side of the VF hints at that series.
>>
>> I don’t remember a Practica with the battery located there. But of course,
>> I’m so human, and so prone to error as a result ;-)
>>
>> Amities
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>>> Le 18 déc. 2020 à 17:20, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hi Wayne. I was afraid someone would ask that. Based on the position of
>>> the shutter release, I believe it to be a Praktika SLR that I bought used
>>> when my eyesight began to get too weak for a Leica LTM rangefinder.
>>>
>>> On 12/18/20 8:12 AM, Wayne Shumaker wrote:
>>>> At 12/17/2020 07:55 PM, Jim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As most of us realize, the family photographer seldom appeared in
>>>>> vacation pictures back in the film era. My youngest son sent me this
>>>>> one tonight that he found in his files. In 1971, when he was 10 yrs
>>>>> old, I had given him a simple camera to take on a trip to visit
>>>>> Mississippi relatives, Vicksburg, etc. He shot this at my old family
>>>>> home.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Dad_Camera.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Things are a lot different with today's cell phone cameras.
>>>> What camera is that in your hand?
>>>>
>>>> WayneS
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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