![]() ![]() Czechoslovakia president Vaclav Havel – 2 500 000 It was bought by Michael von Rosen from the original owner in 1970 and was kept in his private museum until 2001. 700 000 was presented to an Austrian, Professor Kruckenhauser, a ski and mountain photographer in 1955. Wilhelm Schneider, the inventors of Agfacolor film – 350 000 Leopold Mannes, the inventors of Kodachrome 175 000 Maybe we should talk about Leica’s presentation cameras here too since we are at it, "not" all are M3: While serial number starts from 700 000, the first M3 is actually 700 001 but not 700 000, M3 700 000 is one of the first so called presentation camera. Not just that, actually the very final batch of 38 olive M3 with serial number 1 206 962 to 1 205 999 was delivered on 30 July 1968, after introduction of Leica M4, and Leicaflex SL! It is commonly known that M3 production level overlap with M4 but it is actually wrong. But, in fact, the final batch of 20 chrome M3 was delivered on. M3 serial number ranged from 700 000 to 1 164 865 with production “officially” started from 1954 until 1966. Let’s cover all the variations one by one in the next 10, 20, 30 or 50 or so articles on M3.īut let us start with some of the fundamentals and “fun facts” first: How many variations of Leica M3 existed? 10? 20? 30? My guest is that it has over 50 different types of M3 cameras. ![]()
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