{"id":32673,"date":"2025-11-03T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32673"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:44:19","slug":"so-who-needs-slow-speeds-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/so-who-needs-slow-speeds-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"so who needs slow speeds anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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lot 201 in the Nov 9, 2025 PHSC Museum Auction – a black dial 1951\/2 Leica IIf<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. … Besides, the IIf Leica was less expensive to buy than a IIIf. This cosmetically clean c1951 black dial IIf Leica with the correct 5cm f\/2 collapsible Summitar lens is lot 201 at next Sunday’s PHSC Museum Auction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The camera’s fast speed dial uses the old \u00a0increments (starts at 1\/30th and proceeds to 1\/500th). The camera and lens are satin chrome with the odd (and ever so faint) bright area and scratch.<\/p>\n

Take a closer look Sunday before it is auctioned. The camera and lens look almost \u00a0like new. A lubrication may be all it needs to be a usable camera – as well as a collectible. Only 4,000 black dial IIf cameras were made in 1951 and another 4,400 the following year. The red dial version began in the same year – 1952 – when the company switched to the international speed increments. Over the six year manufacturing span, some 10,300 or so IIfs were made.<\/p>\n

As the cameras could be factory modified to add a slow speed dial (1\/30th or 1\/25th to 1 second like a IIIf), it is uncertain how many of the original IIf cameras exist unmodified and of those, how many are clean enough to be considered collectible by a fussy collector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. … Besides, the IIf Leica was less expensive to buy than a IIIf. This cosmetically clean c1951 black dial IIf Leica with the correct 5cm f\/2 collapsible Summitar lens is lot 201 at next Sunday’s PHSC Museum Auction. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[34,61,4818,63,279,2951],"class_list":["post-32673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","tag-cameras","tag-leica","tag-leica-iif","tag-leitz","tag-lenses","tag-viewers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32679,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673\/revisions\/32679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}