At Disney Land in LA, at the Indianna Jones ride, one of the displays one sees while waiting in line is a caged in area with a lot of old items an archieologists from the 1940s might use. One is a leica screw mount camera on a small tripod. The camera is a II or III as it has a range finder, but which model is it? Does anyone know?

-- mark (mramra@qwest.net), December 06, 2001

Answers

If it has a slow shutter-speed dial on the front, it's a III. If not, it's a II (model D) assuming you are correct that it has to be one or the other. Was it black? There are later models that would have been available by 1940, right up through the IIIc/d. Did it have a self-timer?

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), December 06, 2001.

Bob

It was silver and had a collapsible lens if memory serves me correct. I don't remember if it had the slow speed dial or not and I don't know enough to separate the plain old IIIs from the IIIAs, IIICs, Fs and G's etc. I was hoping someone else noticed it and knew the answer. I guess next time I go back I'll take a better look.

-- mark (mramra@qwest.net), December 10, 2001.

Do you get sick on that ride? I couldn't deal with Back to the Future at Universal, but I thought the Jurassic Park drop was pretty cool.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), December 10, 2001.

i think its a disposable painted to look like a leica....probably aps...

-- grant (g4lamos@yahoo.com), December 10, 2001.