If you could have an exploded view of any M-mount rangefinder, which would it be?

If you could have an exploded view of any M-mount rangefinder, which would it be?

  • Leica MP

    Votes: 56 34.4%
  • Leica M7

    Votes: 8 4.9%
  • Leica M6/M6 TTL

    Votes: 25 15.3%
  • Leica M4

    Votes: 29 17.8%
  • Zeiss Ikon

    Votes: 12 7.4%
  • Epson R-D1

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Leica M8

    Votes: 9 5.5%
  • Voigtlander Bessa

    Votes: 3 1.8%
  • Other (Please specify in comments)

    Votes: 19 11.7%

  • Total voters
    163
I voted for "other" and would have to go with M2, M4-P or M8. I've shot with those, so it'd be cool to see the insides.
 
M3 - mechanical perfection (c). (although it doesn't qualify, having tried one, I'd most like to see a Nikon SP view. )
 
Actually, the M8 would be strange to see... I've seen film cameras this way, but not really digitals. Not that I look much.
 
I am entirely unsentimental about cameras. I understand why so many want to see the M3 but I'd prefer the M6 simply because I have a few of them it it might be useful if I had to to any DIY fixing.
 
Why are we voting? the poll is 4 years old. This has either happened, or it never will.

But in fact I think I have one.

When I check, I have 1 and a bit. Page 52 of "master photography" by Michael Busselle (c) 1976 has a detailed cutaway of a Leica CL and Summicron C 40mm. Plus a Mamiya C330 TLR, a Bronica MF SLR and a Pentax KX.

Page 20 of "The 35mm Handbook" by Michael Freeman (c) 1980 has a simplified functional diagram, again of a CL. There's a fabulous AF Minolta cutaway. My copy is a 1988 reprint so maybe this was inserted later? Surely in 1980 they woudn't have been showing off their AF designs?

Perhaps someone (Roger?) can let me know whether I can post the 1976 full Leica CL cutaway?
 
Thread revival...
I've been searching high and low for exploded parts views of the M2 & M5. Anything appear somewhere on the internet yet? Does anyone know if any of the Thomas Tomosy texts have an exploded views?
 
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