Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Advice on selling a used Leica.
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:34:18 -0500
References: <B6B1A407.E6BF%jbcollier@home.com>

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

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In reply to: Message from John Collier <jbcollier@home.com> (Re: [Leica] Advice on selling a used Leica.)