what year is your m3 from?

[back alley]

mine was made when i was 5.

1955



the answer can be found here on cameraquest...

 

[dcsang]

I wasn't born yet..

1956 - actually.. 9 years before my birth..

Dave

 

[raid]

No clue. Mine has number about 975,000 or so. It is still in mint condition.

 

[ray_g]

Ok, Joe. Now I am starting to get seller's remorse. 🙂

 

[back alley]

buy that m2 that is for sale.
play with it till you want to move on and then sell it to me at a horrible loss🙂🙂🙂

 

[ray_g]

No clue. Mine has number about 97500 or so. It is still in mint condition.

October 1959.

A 46 year-old virgin. :bang:

 

[Sonnar Brian]

The M3DS is 1957, M2 is 1958 (first regular production batch), and the M3SS is 1960.

The Leica IIIF is a converted IIIc, probably 1946 or 47. The CL is a young whippersnapper from the '70s.

 

[xayraa33]

Mine is from Sept. 1957

 

[ray_g]

buy that m2 that is for sale.
play with it till you want to move on and then sell it to me at a horrible loss🙂🙂🙂

I have an M2, that I chose to keep over the M3. No regrets about the choice, just about the M3 part. 🙂 Hmmm... maybe when you are done playing, YOU can sell it back to me for a horrible loss. For wear and tear, you know. 🙂

 

[back alley]

I have an M2, that I chose to keep over the M3. No regrets about the choice, just about the M3 part. 🙂 Hmmm... maybe when you are done playing, YOU can sell it back to me for a horrible loss. For wear and tear, you know. 🙂

curses, foiled again!

now i'm curious...how come ya kept the m2?
joe

 

[back alley]

so far, mine is the oldest...😉

 

[doubs43]

The Leica IIIF is a converted IIIc, probably 1946 or 47.

The 1946/47 run was 40,001; all IIIc's. They go from 400,000 to 440,000. There may have been some IIIc's between the (approximate) 397,000 and 400,000 range but the book I have isn't too clear about them.

Walker

 

[Ergo]

8/24/59

I was 18 in USN in France

 

[Kyle]

Mine was made in 1957, 28 years before I was born... 😀

 

[ray_g]

curses, foiled again!

now i'm curious...how come ya kept the m2?
joe

Cause I have used it and the M6 a lot and have gotten used to the .72 finder. When I started shooting with the M3 again, it took some time to adjust. I figured I didn't need another variable to account for. That, plus it just had a CLA, shutter and frameline replacement with DAG last year.

You, on the other hand, are used to 1x finders on the P, and now on the ZI.

I also have been shooting more 35mm.

 

[raid]

October 1959.

A 46 year-old virgin. :bang:

Ray: It has number 975,000 and not 97,500. A typo.,

 

[ray_g]

Ray: It has number 975,000 and not 97,500. A typo.,

Yep, I figured as much, Raid. They started at 700001, at least according to Gandy's List

 

[CZeni]

1954. Of course it didn't really look anything like this when it left Wetzlar 🙂

 

[back alley]

is that hammertone?

 

[back alley]

Cause I have used it and the M6 a lot and have gotten used to the .72 finder. When I started shooting with the M3 again, it took some time to adjust. I figured I didn't need another variable to account for. That, plus it just had a CLA, shutter and frameline replacement with DAG last year.

You, on the other hand, are used to 1x finders on the P, and now on the ZI.

I also have been shooting more 35mm.

i remember now, from your for sale post.
i never put that all together, the m3/zi/p and the finders.
must be freudian...🙂