gmpphotography Posted March 14, 2014 Share #1 Posted March 14, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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luigi bertolotti Posted March 14, 2014 Share #2 Posted March 14, 2014 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddddan Posted March 14, 2014 Share #3 Posted March 14, 2014 A visual profile on Leica M6 Electronic Prototype rangefinder camera model in a hybrid design - MIR Image Library its also called M6 electronic;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted March 15, 2014 Share #4 Posted March 15, 2014 A visual profile on Leica M6 Electronic Prototype rangefinder camera model in a hybrid design - MIR Image Libraryits also called M6 electronic;) Thanks for the link... 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... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmpphotography Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share #5 Posted March 15, 2014 Thanks everyone for the info provided. Once again I am reminded that Leica is a never ending learning process. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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