Film loading: after opening of the bottom plate, by a handle on it with engrawings open-auf, close-zu.

Diopter correction lever: beneath re-winding knob.

Viewfinder: rangefinder and viewfinder are in a window with separate viewers.

Shutter: double rubber & cloth curtain, horizontal focal plane, speeds 1/30 - 1/500 +B.

Focusing: by matching yellow rangefinder images in the left window in the eyepice.

Lens: There are various lenses for Leica IIf.Leica IIf (Black dial variant 1951) w/Summitar 50mm f/2 Images by SР“Сleyman Demir ( ImageР’В rights) Leica IIf (1956) w/ Summicron 35mm f/3.5 & Turnet finder image nattens ( ImageР’В rights) Leica IIf (Red dial variant, 1956) w/ Summarit 50mm f/1.5 image by rst12 ( ImageР’В rights) It would be fair to say that few collectors will ever have the luck or the money to collect all the different models. There are an infinite variety of both screw mount, and later, bayonet mount models and variations of models to choose from. Leica cameras are by far the most collected camera ever. In 1924, 30 hand built 'Null series' cameras were distributed to famous photographers and other photographic experts to gauge their reaction to this 'small negative, large picture' concept. An employee at Leitz, Oscar Barnack, began experimenting, for his own use, on a pocket size camera.Р”Р‡rom two or possibly three prototypes built between 19 came the idea of mass producing a 35mm camera. In 1863 Ernst Leitz joined the institute and later Leitz became the sole owner of the now renamed company, E Leitz, Wetzlar. The firm Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany began as an Optical Institute under the direction of Carl Kellner in 1849. There are many variants such as Black dial (1951-54), red dial 1/500, red dial 1/1000 (1951-56), Betriebsk or Betriebskamera engraved that worker cameras used by Leitz employees and Eigentum property company cameras.Р”Р„ll Black dial cameras have the old type shutter speeds of 1/20, 1/30,1/40.

The early model Leica IIc was replaced in 1951 by the IIf with minor differences. This model is a Leica IIIf body without the slow-speed button. The name Leica comes from Lei-tz ca-mera. Leica IIf is a 35mm film interchangeable lens rangefinder camera, manufactured by Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, former West Germany and produced between 1951-56. Leica IIf (Black dial variant, 1951) w/ Summitar 50mm f/2 image by SР“Сleyman Demir ( ImageР’В rights)

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