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I just read about a special WestLicht auction to commemorate the grand opening of Leitz Park at the end of next month. The article is accompanied by a picture of a variety of obviously rare Leica equipment. One camera especially caught my eye, it is pictured on the right, below the early Leitz microscope. It is apparently an M camera, but definitely different from the typical M camera layout. Does anyone have any idea what camera that might be?

See: LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: SPECIAL WESTLICHT LEICA AUCTION

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Yes, it is a known prototype, made at the times of the Leitz-Minolta liasion : in practice, it was based on some motorized Minolta SLR body of the era (don't remember the model... X<something>...) , deprived of the mirror box, and adding the rangefinder assembly on top : a lab exercise which never went on.... if I remember well, this happened just BEFORE the intro of M5....(but am not 100% sure... someone else could be of help), the camera that went next to sign the end of M line... before that the Ontario factory insisted to re-engineer M4 with new manufacturing methodologies, resulting in M4-2 and the re-birth of M line, which had its consolidation with M6.

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Thanks for the link...:o I remembered right on the Minolta base - and wrong on timing... not in relation with M5 times, but in relation with the Canadian efforts to keep alive hte M...

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