Nicca IIIS

The Nicca IIIS is a Japanese 35mm rangefinder camera in the Leica screw-mount lineage produced in the 1950s by Nicca Camera Works of Tokyo. It was sold as a domestic alternative to contemporary Leica-style rangefinders and is built around the M39 thread lens mount used by that family of cameras.

Inspect the cloth focal-plane shutter for pinholes, capping issues and accurate slow speeds, and check the rangefinder for haze, separation and accurate vertical and horizontal alignment. The M39 screw thread, top plate engravings and synch arrangement should match a coherent IIIS configuration, as Nicca produced several closely related models that are easy to confuse. Specialist Leica-thread repairers can usually service the shutter and rangefinder, but Nicca-specific cosmetic parts such as top covers and badges are difficult to source.

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