![]() ![]() Some Standard cameras were assembled at Leitz New York during the 1940s from spare parts using Leica III body shells and equipped them with Wollensak lenses. The measured subject distance using the rangefinder must be set on the lens' distance scale manually. However, the black enamelled FOKOS short base rangefinder was made available from the start, as well as a higher ever-ready case accommodating it. The Standard in its basic version is not a rangefinder camera. A disc covers the spot occupied by the slow speed dial found on the other Leica models. Those made after 1945 share body casting with the contemporary models prepared for slow speeds. The Standard camera was replaced in 1949 by the viewfinder-less Leica Ic as the basic camera in the Leica line. Not many were made each year after 1940, except that 461 cameras were made in 1947. After 1936, however, most of the production was finished in chrome, and from 1940, the Standard was available in chrome finish only. By this time, production of chrome-finished Standard cameras had started in small numbers. ![]() These cameras were made between October 1932 and early 1934. The serial numbering began at 101.001 and continued consecutively to 106.000. The accessory shoe on the top plate sits exactly above the lens mount for fitting either a rangefinder or an accessory viewfinder. The only improvement over its predecessor, the Leica I model C, was the smaller-diameter extendible rewind knob. The Leica Standard was at first made only in black enamel finish, with nickel-plated lens barrel and camera controls. The original lens for the Leica Standard when introduced was the Leitz Elmar 1:3.5 F=50mm in a collapsible nickel-plated focusing mount with infinity catch. On the back of these models there is a hole covered by a black plug, presumably for back focus calibration. It is found on early Leica Standards as well. This feature was first seen on late Leica I model C cameras in 1931, and all Leica II, Model D from 1932, identified by a '0' (zero) stamped on the lens mount flange at the top, to indicate the implementation of the standard, a practice that was continued for some time. All these models use the standardised lens mount with distance from film plane to lens flange fixed to 28.8 mm, a Leitz standard. The Leica III with lower shutter speeds was introduced in 1933 this model would later have the faster speed of 1/1000 sec with the IIIa of 1935, though the Leica III would continue in parallel production for several years. ![]() The camera began production in the same year as the Leica II with a coupled rangefinder. The Leica Standard was introduced as a basic model by Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar in October 1932. ![]()
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