Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Advice on selling a used Leica.
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:46:21 -0000

Though the M1 has the advantage of containing a viewfinder system, (showing 
35 and 50mm frames) albeit without a rangefinder, whereas the later MDs and 
MDas never did.
This means that those with the perverse desire (as I had once) can upgrade 
an M1 into something akin to an M2/(3?)/4/4-2/4P by having the appropriate 
rangefinder viewfinder system inserted.
I found an M1 too cheap to resist and then luckily found an M4 finder 
system at a good price too.
With the MD you'll need to start sawing holes in the front of the top plate 
which isn't very easy ;-)
Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Marc James Small [SMTP:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]

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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