Can someone identify my Leica LTM?

[Erik van Straten]

...and Erik will tell us whether the lens is a conversion too

No Michael, your Elmar is not a conversion, but a "true" red-scale Elmar. Conversions have a distance index in the form of a diamond and the true red-scale Elmars have a triangle.

Erik.

 

[Dralowid]

No Michael, your Elmar is not a conversion, but a "true" red-scale Elmar. Conversions have a distance index in the form of a diamond and the true red-scale Elmars have a triangle.

Erik.

Erik,

Many thanks and apologies for asking this question more than once. I have now made a note of it in my 'Small Book of Small Details' so hope that I will not be asking again.

All this talk about a IIa syn, maybe it will cause conversion prices to rise at last!?!

 

[xayraa33]

I don't know about the serial number, but to me it looks like a late 1940's Leica II that had flash sync added at the factory a few years later.

 

[johannielscom]

beautiful camera. early production red scale elmars have diamond focus indicators

No they have not. Early red scale Elmars have a red triangle and later conversions from even earlier black Elmars have that diamond shaped indicator. As per Erik van Straten's post above.

 

[peterm1]

Yes I had the same flash conversion on a 111a that I bought some years ago. The camera dated to 1934 and its Elmar to 1936. It seems this conversion was quite common in the 1950s amongst Leica aficionados. It is pictured here in the middle of this group of cameras. In this instance with a Summaron 35mm f3.5 and a 35mm Canon accessory finder.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Early red scale Elmars have a red triangle and later conversions from even earlier black Elmars have that diamond shaped indicator.

When you have them side by side you'll see another difference: the "true" red-scale Elmar is slightly longer.

Erik.