page_title: Leica M1
hierarchical_section_title: Leica M1
caption_attribution_description: English: Leica camera
context_page_description: The Leica M1 is a 35 mm camera by Leica Camera AG, introduced in 1959. The M1 has a parallax-corrected viewfinder with frames for 35 and 50mm permanently displayed. 9431 were made.
  The M1, which followed the original M3 and later M2, was the lowest-cost and simplest Leica M body, a simplified M2 without a rangefinder. It was intended to be used for technical work together with the ground-glass focussing Visoflex, a mirror reflex housing that turns a Leica M into a single-lens reflex camera.
  Several similar models were made simultaneously with later M-series Leicas:
  The Leica MD, a simplified M2
  The Leica MDa, a simplified M4
  The Leica MD-2, a simplified M4-2
context_section_description: The Leica M1 is a 35 mm camera by Leica Camera AG, introduced in 1959. The M1 has a parallax-corrected viewfinder with frames for 35 and 50mm permanently displayed. 9431 were made.
  The M1, which followed the original M3 and later M2, was the lowest-cost and simplest Leica M body, a simplified M2 without a rangefinder. It was intended to be used for technical work together with the ground-glass focussing Visoflex, a mirror reflex housing that turns a Leica M into a single-lens reflex camera.
  Several similar models were made simultaneously with later M-series Leicas:
  The Leica MD, a simplified M2
  The Leica MDa, a simplified M4
  The Leica MD-2, a simplified M4-2
caption: Leica MDa
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