Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ebay beauties...black M3, MD-post + M6J +...
From: TTAbrahams@aol.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:03:13 EST

Thib, The strange M2 is a K-15S, it was the military version of the M2-R.
Leica made a larger quantity of these cameras than the US Army ordered and
when Army did not order more, it was relabelled M2-R and sold to the
civilians. It came with a 50DR as a standard lens.
The K15 S kit is quite rare, there were only a 1000 or so of these delivered.
Most of them are in quite rough shape and some of them were black painted by
painting over the chrome. The complete kit came in a case with the 35/2, 50DR.
90/2,8 and possibly the 135/2,8 as well as a flash kit. 
Tom A