Leica M-A – Purely Mechanical

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The Leica M-A is a new rangefinder film camera. It's a Leica MP but it doesn't have exposure metering, battery or any electronics at all.

 

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[Firefly]

Wonder if this means that a MR5 is on the way? cheers Rob

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[Timmyjoe]

So it's basically an M2. Is the black finish black chrome, or black paint?

[Photoskeptic]

Back to the future.

[andybarton]

So it's basically an M2. Is the black finish black chrome, or black paint?

 

Chrome

[sblitz]

It's an M4

[plasticman]

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I had an M2 for a while and in many ways it was my favorite M, but issues with the rangefinder meant I sold it (at a large discount because of the fault), and really this new camera would be exactly what I was actually looking for.

 

Great photokina for Leica - love this camera and even hoping they might release a production version of the M60.

[andybarton]

It's an M4

 

It has the M2 rewind, not the lever rewind.

 

Not that it matters - it's an M-A

[wattsy]

M-A is also cheaper than MP. That's got to be a first for Leica. £3100 according to the PDF on the Leica Mayfair website. The prices for the Noctilux and 35 Summilux also seem to have been reduced (a little) if anyone's interested.

[250swb]

Haven't Leica missed a trick by not having a light meter to sell alongside it?

 

 

Steve

[Firefly]

Haven't Leica missed a trick by not having a light meter to sell alongside it?

 

 

Steve

 

Hence my posting about a MR5, should be a good seller with all those unmetered M's around and the MR4 being way beyond its design life, cheers Rob

[Guest camera man]

The new camera may be cheaper with out the light meter but it could also mean that the camera has cheaper internal parts?

[normclarke]

It's an M4P with M2 control's, I think it would have been better to have the M4/M4-2 framelines which are more accurate than the paired lines.

 

Best,

 

normclarke.

[MarkP]

M-A is also cheaper than MP. That's got to be a first for Leica.

 

I don't get it.

Leica dropped a feature (light meter) for purity and dropped the price.

It must be a mistake.

[NJH]

578g. Nice.

 

If I was rich I would buy one.

[alun]

It's handsome - how could it not be? But isn't it the meterless MP that was briefly available eight or nine years ago? Not that it matters, of course. It's just a new old Leica for people with plenty of money who don't already have an old old Leica.

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[trastevere]

Is there any word on the kind of shutter used? Is it the rubberized cloth? And for that matter, is the rangefinder mechanism the tuned-up M variety?

[andybarton]

Given that it is a purely mechanical camera, could the shutter be anything else?

[jpattison]

Hence my posting about a MR5, should be a good seller with all those unmetered M's around and the MR4 being way beyond its design life, cheers Rob

 

Notice that the M-A's shutter dial has the cut out for an MR4 type meter.

 

I have just bought an MR4 for my M4, there are still good accurate working units out there; use a Wein Cell PX625 1.35v Mercury Free Battery rather than a 1.5v which would mean re-calibrating the meter.

 

John

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[duoenboge]

Hai.

The M-A is a very beautifully Leica M. Its the MP (in my opinion one of the most prety Leicas ever) without exposure metering.

Nobody need it except people who are leaving on the top of Mont Everest or directly on the north or south pole whe is not so easy to buy some batteries.

I suppose in this regions is also difficult to buy films or find a laboratory to develope it.

So for what this camera when its possible to purchase a MP or M7 or M?

On this Photokina Leica present in my opinion only very beautifully dust catcher for the vitrine.

I expected more.

Enjoy your treasuries.