> > From: "Chris Mitchell" > > ...when you can do this? > > http://www.bea.hi-ho.ne.jp/bokuto/kosaku/digibarna2/ > > > > Don't know what the original language was and why the guns > are there > > at the end, but the whole thing is bizarre, so why not? > > > > Enjoy, Chris > > That is effin' amazing in a really strange sort of way! > > Looks like it's probably Japanese with the .jp domain. > > Bable Fish translates "Luftwaffen Eigentum" as "Airforce property". > Donor camera looks to be a WWII Nazi German era Leica, and > the guns are similar vintage - Luger P08 & MP 44. >
The serial number on the camera is for a batch of 1929 model Is, so pre-Nazi-era. The camera in question looks like a model II; a genuine one would be much more worn than that one. > A little quick internet research says almost all of the so > called Luftwaffe Leicas are Russian fakes. > > After the war anyone with a real one wanted to get rid of the > Nazi connection, but later a collector's market grew up in > Nazi memorabilia & a lot of post-war Russian copies got > modified to become German military Leicas. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
