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My Leica cameras

My Leica cameras

My 3 Leicas

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A junkyard Mamiyaflex C2

A junkyard Mamiyaflex C2

I have a couple of Mamiya twin lens reflex cameras with interchangeable lenses. A C330f and a C220. I was at my local junkyard (Island Recycling) a while back and I found this junkyard camera. It's an early version of my Mamiya C220. I got it for $15.

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Morioka, Japan 1949-1950

Morioka, Japan 1949-1950

In 1949 my grandfather, Lt. Colonel Millard Maclaughlin, and grandmother, Marie Maclaughlin, went to Japan as part of the United States Occupation of Japan. Japan had been under a military occupation since the end of WII that would not end until 1952. Millard and Marie were sent to Morioka, in northern Japan.  

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Ektachrome

Ektachrome

In the summer of 1958 I was 13 years old. I spent the summer working in the commissary at Tachikawa Air Force Base north of Tokyo where my dad was stationed as a pilot. (For those not in the military a commissary is a super market.) At the end of the summer I went down to the Base Exchange and bought a typewriter and a camera. The typewriter was an Olivetti Lettera 22. I thought it was the most beautiful typewriter ever. I still do and I still have it. My grandfather always had a Leica IIIc so I looked for...

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Sometimes you end up where you started

Sometimes you end up where you started

This was my Grandfathers Leica IIIc he bought it in 1949 when he went to Japan during the Occupation. It was instrumental in my founding gordy's camera straps but that is another story. He gave it to me in the early 1970s. In recent years I replaced the shutter and beam splitter. I thought that a Leica M3 might be a better camera, certainly a more modern camera. I bought one 6 years ago. It's a beautiful camera but I am going back to my IIIc for three reasons. First, it is easier to focus. The IIIc has a separate...

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