The Leica M1 is a
35 mm camera by
Leica Camera
Leica Camera AG () is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, Telescopic sight, rifle scopes and microscopes. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetz ...
AG, introduced in 1959. The M1 has a parallax-corrected viewfinder with frames for 35 and 50mm permanently displayed. 9431 were made.
The M1, which followed the original
M3 and later
M2, was the lowest-cost and simplest Leica M body, a simplified M2 without a rangefinder. It was intended to be used for technical work together with the ground-glass focussing
Visoflex, a mirror reflex housing that turns a Leica M into a single-lens reflex camera.
Several similar models were made simultaneously with later M-series Leicas:
* The Leica MD, a simplified M2
* The Leica MDa, a simplified M4
* The Leica MD-2, a simplified M4-2
References
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Leica rangefinder cameras
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