Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:20 PM 2/15/2001 -0800, George Day wrote: >Could someone fill a newbie like me in the history of an M1? What exactly >is it?! A successor to the Ig. It is a basic Leica M box sans RF. It was used for scientific, industrial, medical, and technical applications, generally with a Visoflex. There were successors, the MD and MDa. It is, today, much more of a collectible than a user, though there are still a slew of these about being used in laboratories and the like around the world. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!