adam_wormleighton

I can see that this has been an emotive issue.

My dad does not know anything about the camera, any stories etc and I don't think there are any pictures taken from it. It has no sentimental value to him, I hardly knew my grandfather, he ran the family business into the ground through stupidity, which my father then spent the rest of his life rectifying and making a living out of in the end. It is thorugh my Father's hard work, not my granfather's, that I am where I am today.

There is nothing my grandfather did that makes any of us proud of him. He didn't serve in any wars or in the army and he was on the whole a lazy man and a chauvanistic man with no time for his children when they grew up, and less time for his grandchildren.

To us, its just a nice old camera that we feel someone who can cherish it and perhaps use once again can get more value from than sitting in a drawer for another 30 years.

If there was some sort of sentimental provenance to it, nice stories about when it was bought/used etc that would be a different thing, but there isn't.

Hence, I needed to know what exactly it was I had and then I will have an idea about selling it on to an enthusiast.

Thanks for your replies, very helpful, but please, less of the judgements.

Adam

Hi,

I know nothing about older cameras and have been given this one by my dad, it

was his father's but I am not sure when it was bought.

I need to sell it but of course need to know just what it is I am selling, can anyone

help?

here is a link to a picture of it:

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-

sf2p/v257/10/54/657781617/n657781617_866987_879.jpg

The camera is marked as follows:

Leica D.R.P No 316550

The lens is marked as:

Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Summar f=5cm 1:2 No. 388966

Any help would be great, thanks!

Adam, UK