Hello

I need to know fast! Will the old ever ready case for the M3 (you know the old brown leather one) hold an M3 with the 50mm summilux old version or is it too short? How much would you pay for it?

Thomas

-- Thomas Krantz (tkrantz@kpmg.com), November 27, 2001

Answers

The everyready case for the M3 came with different top pieces to accommodate diferent lenses. The 14526 has space for lenses with bugeyes (35 and DR). The 14529 has space for only the collapsible Elmar or Summicron. The 14528 has space for any 50mm lens without eyes. So how do you know which one you are looking at? The 14526's snout is very flat, 14529's snout has an obvious bulge for the eyes, and, the 14528's snout looks like a normal SLR's length snout. There is also one to accommodate a camera and MR meter but that is a rather obviously humpbacked one.

Example of a short snout ER case:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130276 9255

Example of a long snout case:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130104 9857

-- John Collier (jbcollier@powersurfr.com), November 27, 2001.