Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/18

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Subject: Re: Question About M4 Cameras
From: Lucien <100774.527@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 97 11:45:50 EST

>post-discontinuance black M4s-if they exist at all. I ask because when I
>bought my M4 in '74 or '75 I was told that my camera was "one of those."
>I've used it almost every day since then and don't regret the "sacrilege,"
>but wonder about the truth of what I was told.

Robert,

Leitz Germany really stop making M-4 Chrom  in 1971, and it was because a
production line for military M-4 was made in Canada, that Leitz had the
possibility to revive the M4 in black chrome all made in Canada .(According to
several publications about the Leica)
- -4.070 with the engraving Leitz Wetzlar including 1400 - 50th anniversary
1380001-1381650 1974
1384001-1384600 1974
1413351-1415000 1975
1443001-1443170 1975
- -1750  with the engraving Leitz Midland Canada including 350 - 50th anniversary
1381651-1382600 1974
1412551-1413350 1975

Lucien