Leica M3
The Leica M3 is a 35mm rangefinder system made by Leica (1954-1968).
Optics & imaging
- Lens mount
- Leica M
- Shutter
- focal plane cloth curtains, horizontal travel from 1/1000 to 1s
- ASA/ISO range
- 160 to 2500 ISO
- Exposure meter
- None
- Exposure modes
- manual
Body & handling
- Focusing
- manual
- Rangefinder
- coupled, combined (ERB = 47.1mm)
- Viewfinder
- Reverse Galilean (0.90×) with automatic or manual selection of parallax corrected framelines
- Motor drive
- No
- TTL Flash
- No
- Shoe
- fixed
- X sync speed
- 1/50
- Synchronized
- X
- Battery
- None
- Dimensions
- 138×77×38mm
- Weight
- 550g
Production & identity
- Maker
- Leica
- Camera Type
- 35mm rangefinder system
- Dates
- 1954-1968
- Variants
- silver-black