(From: hyperfocalpoint.com)

The first Single-Lens-Reflex Leica, introduced 1964, ten years after the Leica M3, five years after the Nikon F. And more expensive at the time than those two.. In four years Leica produced 37500 pieces, while Nikon sold a million Fs in ten years.

There is one feature that separates the Leicaflex from every other camera. While it has a through the lens viewfinder, the viewing screen is not matte. That means the look is similar like a range finder, that wherever your eyes focus to it is sharp (to some degree), while with the matte screen if it is not in focus your eye also can not see it sharp. While I prefer to see as much as possible how the final photo will look like, some people see this as a major advantage of a rangefinder, that for composing and framing everything is sharp all the time, even the final photo might have just a selected area that will be really sharp on the photo.

Anyway, the camera seems to be able to make as good photos as any leica ever did.


(From: Rob F) - with Leica Elmarit-R 60mm f/2.8 Macro and Ilford FP4.


(From: Rob F) - with Leica Elmarit-R 90mm f/2.8 and Pan F+.


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