Although the tool you use in photography is sorta secondary, if you were going to only buy one 35mm film camera for the next 20 years,…this would be it. While it’s still an awesome tool, it’s still not cheap. Along with the Summicron 50mm,….a legend for sure. And probably singularly responsible for their remaining an esteemed marque. Other models fluctuate with the market, and the digital Leicas always go down in value. It was considered the epitome of camera design. They sold over 220,000 of these cameras between 19. It had a single shutter speed dial, its first thumb-lever wind, a film counter that reset automatically, viewfinder parallax correction, and a viewfinder that switched automatically depending on lens used! Very futuristic for the time. It was Leica introducing the bayonet lens mount, a flip-open film-loading door, a combined viewfinder and rangefinder system greatly improved. I suppose you can say it was Leicas “Golden Age”. In fact, it was easily the most advanced camera when introduced in 1954.
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