{"id":824,"date":"2021-03-13T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=824"},"modified":"2021-03-13T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:02:00","slug":"how-to-spot-a-fake-leica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"How to Spot a Fake Leica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coming from the perspective of being a Zenit KMZ importer, this article was interesting, and I was happy to see at the end that they report the fakes aren&#8217;t half bad.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never really shot much with the Leica rangefinder cameras since I prefer SLR&#8217;s but maybe someday I&#8217;ll pick one up, and perhaps it will be a copy and not the real thing.\u00a0 Saving this link for future reference.\u00a0 Jump to the page on Mike Eckman&#8217;s site to get a ton of very useful detail about the ways to spot a copy.\u00a0 \u00a0And of course the less subtle things like the Zenit or Fed logos.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and when it comes to prestige products like handbags, watches, and cameras, there are whole<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeeckman.com\/2020\/12\/how-to-spot-a-fake-leica\/\">How to Spot a Fake Leica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeeckman.com\/2020\/12\/how-to-spot-a-fake-leica\/?cn-reloaded=1&amp;cn-reloaded=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FakeLeica4-300x225-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeeckman.com\/2020\/12\/how-to-spot-a-fake-leica\/?cn-reloaded=1&amp;cn-reloaded=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LeicaWindows-1024x683-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Coming from the perspective of being a Zenit KMZ importer, this article was interesting, and I was happy to see at the end that they report the fakes aren&#8217;t half bad.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never really shot much with the Leica rangefinder cameras since I prefer SLR&#8217;s but maybe someday I&#8217;ll pick one up, and perhaps it will be a copy and not the real thing.\u00a0 Saving this link for future reference.\u00a0 Jump to the page on Mike Eckman&#8217;s site<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=824\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[375,376,51,377,374],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-copy","tag-differences","tag-fake","tag-how-to","tag-leica"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}