sksaito Posted November 30, 2012 Share #1 Posted November 30, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) What is the Leica M4-2 Null Series? No serial number I guess. How many and how rare? Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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k_g_wolf ✝ Posted November 30, 2012 Share #2 Posted November 30, 2012 There is no such thing, at least I never heard of one. HASBROOK and LAGER don´t cover these, afik. Do you have a source/ photograph ? M4-2-production was kind of Null Series for the M4-P ... Regards GEORG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted November 30, 2012 Share #3 Posted November 30, 2012 Never heard of unnumbered M4-2 ... but it was the first M with s/n engraved on the hotshoe, and given the strange facts that occurred to many parts inside the Ontario factory just before and after its sale to Hughes, I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries to sell some unnumbered M4-2... The first batch of 100 M4-2 has a someway complex story (partially made in Portugal ? I don't remember exactly the question...) but I think they were anyway numbered... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sksaito Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share #4 Posted November 30, 2012 It is on eBay right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted November 30, 2012 Share #5 Posted November 30, 2012 Uhm... s/n is a bit odd (not within a batch of M4-2s) but other M4-2s are known around that number (see Wiki section) : defining it as a "null series" is misleading... but typical of THAT seller.... Imho, half of the price asked could be even too much... see here a similar (not IDENTICAL) item, same "uncommon" numbering : WestLicht Photographica Auction : the variants about the writings ("made in Canada" "Canada" "made by Leitz Canada") are known and documented, and hard to justify a patent of "rarity". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted November 30, 2012 Share #6 Posted November 30, 2012 Hello Everybody, M5's & CL's, both of which predate M4-2's, also have their serial numbers engraved on their hot shoes. Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted December 1, 2012 Share #7 Posted December 1, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) "null series" do not means no serial numbers engraved, there are part of the the very first issues sometimes delivered to dealers or famous photographers for evaluation and testing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted December 1, 2012 Share #8 Posted December 1, 2012 Hello Everybody, M5's & CL's, both of which predate M4-2's, also have their serial numbers engraved on their hot shoes. Best Regards, Michael Ach... I always remove the unloved M5 from my mind.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k_g_wolf ✝ Posted December 1, 2012 Share #9 Posted December 1, 2012 # 1469 20x makes it a pretty early one from 1977. The number actually belongs to an R3 olive-series according to LANEY. But they mixed these numbers a lot in the old days. The red LEITZ-dot disappeared later on, the regular M4-2 didn´t have it. Perhaps that´s why some call it the "Null Series". Regards GEORG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sksaito Posted December 1, 2012 Author Share #10 Posted December 1, 2012 Thank you all for the info. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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