Leica M1

Leica M1
Overview
Type	35 mm camera
Lens
Lens mount	Leica M-mount
Focusing
Focus	manual
Exposure/Metering
Exposure	manual
Flash
Flash	standard accessory shoe with separate bulb and electronic flash connectors
General
Dimensions	138 x 77 x 33.5 mm
Weight	545 g

The Leica M1 is a 35 mm camera by Leica Camera AG, introduced in 1959. The M1 has no rangefinder, but a parallax-corrected viewfinder with frames for 35 and 50mm permanently displayed. 9431 were made.

The M1 was the cheapest and simplest Leica M body. As such, it was suitable either as a low-budget general purpose camera, or as an interface to other instruments, like the Visoflex, or scientific instruments (telescopes, microscopes, etc.).

Several similar models were made in parallel with later iterations of the Leica M family:

The Leica MD, a simplified M2
The Leica MDa, a simplified M4
The Leica MD-2, a simplified M4-2

Leica MDa
Leica MDa

Leica Camera

35mm series cameras	Leica Standard Leica II Leica III

M (rangefinder) film series	M3 M2 M1 M4 M5 CL M6 M7 MP

Digital M (rangefinder) series	M8 M9 M-E M Monochrom M

R (35mm film SLR and dSLR) series	Leicaflex / SL / SL2 Leica R3 Leica R4-R7 Leica R8-R9

Leica S (medium format) series	Leica S2

TL mount (Autofocus MILC) series	Leica T Leica SL

Digital compact camera series	Leica X1 Leica X2 Leica X Vario Leica X Leica Q

Digilux (digital) series	Digilux 1 Digilux 2 Digilux 3

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Leica M mount bodies

Leica camera bodies	M3 M2 M1 M4 M5 CL M6 MP M7 M8 M9 M9-P M Monochrom M-E M M-P M-A

Camera bodies by other manufacturers	Hexar RF Epson R-D1 35mm Bessa Cosina Voigtländer Minolta CLE Rollei 35 RF Zeiss Ikon

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