[Leica] "It has a big red dot on it...."

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)]

I think the M4-P was the first to have a red dot, though I've heard some
M4-2 bodies had it too. The dot on the M4-P was on the front of the body
where the battery goes on an M6. The M6 moved the dot to the front of top
plate where it remained for the M7 and M8.


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On 5/21/10 4:03 PM, "Vince Passaro" <passaro.vince at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anecdote: I took out to lunch a potential new student and her father today;
> she's likely coming to our program. Then she came back to my office to
> handle some class registration stuff. Saw my IIIf (which needs repairs) up
> on the shelf. "I have a camera that looks something like this," she said.
> "It was a gift from my grandmother."  I showed her the rear of mine and
> said, does it have two holes to look through or one?  "One," she said.
> 
> "Does it say Leica," I now ask, feeling a bit like the wolf in Little Red
> Ridinghood.  "I don't know," she says, "I basically just put it away as 
> some
> kind of antique."
> 
> I figured it was an M2 or M3 as they are closest "one-hole" relatives to 
> the
> IIIf visually; unless it was a Canon or some other 1950s rangefinder. I sat
> down and started up the computer to take care of her registration issues.
> 
> "It has this BIG red dot on it," she says suddenly. I stop typing.  "Bring
> that with you in the fall," I tell her. "I'll show you how to use it."  My
> fangs are dripping now. "Does it have a lens?" I say, backtracking.  "Oh
> yes," she says. "I think there are two."
> 
> You'll find me in my office baying at the moon, I almost say.
> 
> Was it the M4 or the M6 that was the first to have the red dot?
> 
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