Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Lugnuts, Tom answered to my request about the strange M2 on Ebay. He does know everything! Thanks again Tom! Thib. At 15:03 19/02/1999 EST, you wrote: >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 > >