How old is your vintage Leica?

[ray_g]

I was just looking at them today after I took out the elmar-c that i sold earlier, and checked out serial #'s:

M3 and collapsible 50 summicron - both 1955
M2 - 1958
Rigid Summicron - 1957
90/2.8 Chrome elmarit - 1960

Amazing how they keep working, most of them working like new. And all older than I am.

Well, I had to look at the screwmount kit:

IIIf - 1951 (I thought it would have been older)
35/3.5 Summaron - 1950
90/4 elmar - 1960
50/2 Summar - 1937
50/3.5 Elmar - no serial number, pre-1933

And the IIIf's got an almost-finished roll in it. 🙂

 

[trittium]

m3- '57
m2- '58

 

[Kyle]

My M2 is from 1965.

I used Stephen Gandy's site http://www.cameraquest.com/mtype.htm for those that don't know off the top of their heads or don't want to Google it.

 

[richard_l]

M3 - 1955
M2 - 1962

 

[jkelly]

I was born in 1956, and all my Leica stuff is older than me. All works like new.

IIIa - 1935
M3 - 1954
Summar - 1935
Summitar - 1951
Elmar f4/9cm - 1946
SBOOI finder - unknown but old

 

[flashover]

My two were born the same year. My Dad was 3 years old when they were manufactured.

Leica IIIa 1936
Leica III 1936

Summitar 1942 (coated version)

 

[jja]

M4-1970

Is that too young to be vintage?

 

[reagan]

Leica.III chrome ~ 1935
Leica.III black ~ 1934
Elmar.9cm black ~ 1937

 

[MadMan2k]

M3, 1960

29 years older than me. 😀
It works, but the 1 second setting isn't accurate - I'll get it fixed eventually.

 

[OldNick]

IIIf RD, 1952-55
IIIa, 1935
Summitar, 1949
Elmar 50mm f/3.5 coated, 1946

Jim N.

 

[markinlondon]

My everyday outfit:
M2 - 1959
50 f2.8 elmar - 1965
Weston Euro Master - 19??

Sonn to be joined by:
90 elmar - ~ 1960

 

[kmack]

IIIf BD 1951
Summitar 1950 f=5cm 1:2

 

[raid]

I need to find a source for serial numbers and production dates for :

Standard Leica
IIIc


M3 SS slightly below 1000,000
M6 (1997?)


Raid

 

[Ash]

Screwmount - http://cameraquest.com/ltmnum.htm
M - http://cameraquest.com/leicanum.htm and http://cameraquest.com/mtype.htm

 

[Ash]

I don't own an M, but my LTM's are:

Leica Standard Black - 1934, (batch of 225)
Leica IIIc -1950, (batch of 25000)

 

[raid]

I don't own an M, but my LTM's are:

Leica Standard Black - 1934, (batch of 225)
Leica IIIc -1950, (batch of 25000)

Ash: How can you tell that the Standard is one out of 225 made?

Raid

 

[markinlondon]

There used to be a serial number checker at leica-camera.com but it seems to have vanished with the redesign. Shame, it was handy for checking ebay items and the like.

 

[Ash]

Raid check the cameraquest links 🙂

 

[Joerg]

Hi,

IIIc 1949
IIIc 1946
M4 1969

Ciao

joerg

 

[raid]

Raid check the cameraquest links 🙂

Thanks, Ash. I will do so. My Standard is also black and I wonder if the black models are rarer or the chrome ones. One person told me that the black is rare but I read somewhere that many more were made in black than in chrome.

Raid