rico wrote: Desmolicious wroteLeica M3 DS, Summaron 35mm 3.5,Wow, talk about hardcore analog. The only Leica I want is an early DS (already have the Summaron 35/2.8).
Mine's an early one. Only issue is it looks like sometime in the past someone tried to remove the bezel around the film counter with an inappropriate tool, marring the finish. Gus Lazari from TLC Camera Repair CLA'd it about 10 yrs ago, been perfect since. The vulcanite was replaced with the leather as it had started to crumble off in my hands. It can very easily be replaced with any colour leather as the hard part was removing the rest of the vulcanite!
That's a beauty alright! Of course, all DS are early in M3 production but yours is a late DS with two dots on the rewind stem. Before that was the one-dot version and the earliest had no dot. No dot is what I seek because those bodies has a ball-bearing detent in the film door. Leicaphiles can be so anal.
At noon, with the light in the street so bright that the rangefinder and light meter LEDs flare out if you're outside. Exposed for the highlights, which means an underexposure of 2.5 stops for the interior, but easily compensated by lifting the shadows in the processing This is an Isaan restaurant, with excellent grilled chicken wings (best with the jaew dipping sauce rather than the sweet "chicken sauce" and somtam (green papaya salad); and, of course a Singha beer. (Pre-Covid, the mask worn by the man is for protection against the smoke and for hygiene in not breathing onto the chicken he's grilling.)
M10 | DR Summicron-50 | ISO 200 | f/11 | 1/45 sec Chiang Mai