This Listing Is For A Sears Tower Type-3 35mm Film Rangefinder Camera, with a Nikkor 5cm f2 LTM/M39 Lens, and Original Leather Case, in very good condition.
(Camera Serial: 34444, Lens Serial: 617558, Japan)
- Camera and lens are in very good condition, with some signs of previous use.
- Shutter fires at all speeds, and sounds fairly accurate, though slow speeds are fast. Shutter curtains look to be in very nice shape, material does not look dry, and stitching is intact with no fraying.
- Rangefinder is bright and accurate, and vertical alignment is good.
- Camera body has been modified with flash sync plugs on the front of the body.
- Lens is a rigid Nikkor 5cm (50mm) f2, in standard Leica thread mount/M39, in very nice shape.
- Optics are in nice shape, with some light cleaning marks on the front and rear elements, and from marks to the front coating, that will not effect image quality.
- Focus is nice and smooth, and lens focuses smoothly through the entire range, including the "macro" range, which focuses uncoupled from the rangefinder to 1.5 feet.
- Aperture stops-down and opens up smoothly, though has a bit of stiffness between f2 and f2.8, however the aperture itself does not bind, simply the adjustment ring.
- Includes original Sears Tower-branded fitted leather case, in beautiful shape, leather has a mild patina from previous use, and stitching is intact and strong.
- The Tower Type-3 was a direct clone of the German Leica II, made in post-World War II Japan by Nicca Camera Works, and branded Tower for sale in Sears Roebuck mail-order catalogs. The cameras included lenses made by Nippon Kogaku, a budding lens and camera manufacturer that would soon be known worldwide as Nikon.
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JL 03/30/24
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