http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p224097860 Photographs of Osaka Castle and its gardens from 1985. These views were taken, interestingly, with a Leica rangefinder model IIIc and the standard 50mm F2 collapsible lens. This particular (and very popular) screwmount Leica was build between 1940 and 1951. I was lucky to find my specimen (a post-war production IIIc from around 1948) in a store on Nanjing Street in Shanghai. The lens, as can be seen from the pictures, had rub marks in the middle of the front lens, which results in a soft filter effect for much of that part of the image. Other than that, and given its advanced age, the camera was in perfect working condition. I loaded it up with Tri-X film, and got a number of very nice shots out of it (as I hope you agree). <br/><br/>For more on the Leica IIIc see <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ozdoba.net/leica/schraub_IIIc_e.html">http://www.ozdoba.net/leica/schraub_IIIc_e.html</a><br/><br/>20 year old large paper prints, scanned with an Epson 2400 Photo scanner at 240 DPI; files were converted from TIFF to JPG. <br/><br/>Processed and uploaded September 27, 2006. TH, Ithaca NY. en-us (C) Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images th.hahn@gmail.com (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images) Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:50:00 GMT Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:56:00 GMT Japan Asia Travel and Places http://hahn.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v0/p961442244-10.jpg http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p224097860 120 80 http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p224097860/e394E71C4

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