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MANUFACTURER SPECIFICATIONS
Camera: Leica M7 35mm rangefinder camera with Leica M-type bayonet lensmount. Street price, body only, $2,350.
Lens tested: 28mm f/2 Summicron-M ASPH. Street price, $2,000. F/2-16 in half stops, focusing to 2.5 feet, 46mm filter thread.
Focusing and viewing: Combined, coincident-type , optical range/viewfinder with projected, auto-parallax-compensating framelines for 28mm 35mm 50mm 75mm, 90mm and 135mm focal lengths; manual frameline selector.
Shutter: Electronically timed horizontal cloth focal plane with manually selected speeds of 4-1/1000 sec, 1/50-sec flash-sync speed, plus B. Continuously variable speeds of 32-1/1000 sec in aperture-priority mode, manual, mechanical speeds of 1/60 and 1/125 sec operable without battery power.
Exposure control: Silicon photodiode in base of body reads off 12mm spot in center of first shutter curtain, providing through-the-lens measurements of about 13 percent of the frame area. Metering system is electronically coupled to shutter and ISO dial for match-diode metering or aperture-priority autoexposure. Manually set film speeds ISO 6-6400 DX settings ISO 25-5000 exposure compensation of ±2 EV. Metering range, EV2-20 with f/1.0 lens at ISO 100.
Flash: SPD cell in body provides TTL autoflash with SCA-3000-system dedicated flash units via four-contact dedicated hot-shoe.
Loading and winding: Manual bottom loading with removable baseplate, hinged back section. Ratcheted, single-stroke film-wind lever has 105-degree stroke; body accepts Leica Winder-M for single shot or sequential advance to 1.5 frames per sec.
Other features: Finder readouts display camera-selected shutter speeds in aperture-priority mode, exposure LEDs in match-diode manual mode, plus exposure lock, no-film, exposure compensation set and DX warnings, plus flash ready and flash OK indications. Battery check. Power supply, two DL 1/3 N lithium cells or (in an emergency) four EPX 76 alkaline cells.
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