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Leica M2 : Specifications and Opinions

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The Leica M2 is a mirrorless camera that uses film (non-digital) manufactured from 1954 to 1966 (discontinued). It does not have a continuos shooting mode.

6 users have given it an average vote of 10.0 out of 10

Esposure
Shutter speeds	1" - 1/1000
Exp. modes	M
Metering modes
Features
Stabilization	No
Continuos shooting	FPS
Pre-Burst	No
Live View	No
Video mode
WiFi	No
GPS	No
Camera body and built
Viewfinder	Optical, coverage %, 0.72x
Flash	No
Battery
Weather sealing	No
Weight	580 g
Dimensions	138 x 77 x 33 mm
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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Google Translate.

Delio.bartolucci.boyle

sent on January 02, 2020

Pros: I review here the M3, the first M model, and not the M2 that came out later. Pro? simply the best 135mm machine ever built by the human being

Cons: has no display meter. but perhaps better. at least it doesn't squander.

Opinion: Ermanno is perfectly right, we are confusing the M2 with the M3 and for such an accurate site that aspires to become a reference is a great flaw: not out of Leicista fetishism but out of respect for a medium that has literally made the history of photography. It's worth repeating it succincly. There was once photography, a cumbersome thing made of means that stood on stand, took a single sheet, and gave great emotions (those were photographers, one on all Vittorio Sella, other than autofocus pixel burst batteries etc). Some geniuses such as Victor Hasselblad and the Leitz lineage tried to make photography an accessible and more agile medium, the first in large format with the fantastic V system, the other had the equally interesting intuition with the format used by kodaks for cinema. As lens and film technology progressed, it was increasingly conceivable to have photos of acceptable quality even with a smaller portion of film. The 135mm, abbreviated 35, with which we still shoot the films with budget and on which are designed the full frame sensors of our technological machines. Leica I, II, III represent the teenage models of the real house, which came to produce the M3, M2, and M1 and then continued with the M4, M5, M6 and M7. Each with the same principle but different peculiarities. The M2, as reported by Ermanno, was less expensive and productively less perfect. In addition, the viewfinder was optimized for the 35, while the M3 is the only one with a 50mm viewfinder with perfect magnification. the M1, even later, did not really have the telemeter for example. The M3 has been THE PHOTOGRAPHY, especially of photojournalism and what today we would call street, or reportage, for decades. Undisputed. Each professional had one to accompany the Rollei bioptic or the aforementioned Hasselblad. More agile, less cumbersome, with 35 poses compared to 12, had net advantages. Henry Cartier Bresson, Capa, Elliot Erwitt and the magnum photographers were shooting with the M3. Before saying that a car is outdated you should be able to take such a picture to Muhammed Ali while without warning throws three shots into the room in the bad light condition of a gym, with telemeter, without an exposition, without possibility to do it https://www.pinterest.it/pin/545428204849182006/ Take such a picture and then you start complaining about autofocus or gusts, or lack of pixels. Maybe if our photo isn't good enough it's because we're neither Ansel Addams nor Capa, and it won't be technology that makes what's in front of us stronger or more iconic. Moreover, until the advent of the cheaper Nikon F, and easier to use perhaps, the telemeter was travel photography, and anyone should confront it once in a lifetime. Moreover, the pleasure of shooting an M3 is still unparalleled today, the taste for the shot itself, I would say. I gave myself one after a lot of years of passion. nothing to take away from my Nikon fm3a, the last real Japanese mechanical reflex, of that lineage that hurt the Germans of Leica so much since the late 60s, but the telemeter shot has in itself characteristics that can not be compared with the reflex system. silence, the leaving part of the photographer's face visible to the subject, the lack of overturning of the mirror and therefore the possibility of avoiding the micromove, the constructive charm of an object that after 60 years is still impeccable. Please add the M3 to the available machines, it is a disretry for all this lack.

Ermanno Carenzo

sent on June 11, 2019

Pros: The Leica M2 did not went out on the market in 54 ', in 1954 came out the Leica M3 which was and is an extraordinary machine, superior to the sister "poor" M2

Cons: The Leica M3 at the time was very expensive and so in Wetzlar decided to support them (after 3 years) a similar model but less esoso, more "poor" precisely called Leica M2

Opinion: Clarification: The Leica M2 has been released after the M3 (although the name seems to be the opposite). The Leica M3 was the first Leica M (produced precisely from 1954 to 1966) while the Leica M2 was released on the market three years later (produced from 1957 to 1968). They have lived together for almost a decade, but even though they seemed similar, it was not so; The Leica M2 was a poorer version of the M3. Speaking of prices, in Italy in 1963 the M3 was 169,000 Lire while the M2 cost 144,900 Lire (about a 17% difference). Specifically, my M3 is 1955 and is part of the first series, the so called DS (Double Stroke) which according to many, seems to be mechanically higher than the second series (film Advancement with Double Shot (DS) and softer, more delicate and more). In short, I can affirm, as a personal opinion, that: the Leica M3 DS (first series) is better than the Leica M3 SS (second series) but that however all M3 are better than M2 and so cascade of all other M (M4, M5, M6, M7). Yes that's right, the Leica M3 is a timeless myth and is the best Leica M mechanics ever! Ermanno.

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