Leica 35mm Model A
date: label: date made
content: 1925
name: label: maker
content: Ernst Leitz
notes: label: Description
content: This camera has the all black finish of early Leicas. Its most important feature is the 50mm f/3.5 Anastigmat lens. This lens name only appears on the null series Leicas and the first production batch up to about serial no. 300. The lens has the original lens cap. Like all early Leica lenses, it collapses into the camera body, but unlike later lenses, lines on the lens mount and body have to be aligned for the lens mount to collapse.
label: Description
content: The early Anastigmat lens was a complex five element design with the three rear elements cemented together. The lens in this example is very cloudy. This is typical of early Leica camera lenses where the elements were cemented together with Canada balsam that has deteriorated with time.
label: Description
content: This camera was donated by Eugine Anderegg, at one time chief representative for Leitz optics in North America and a long time editor of <i>Leica</i> magazine. This camera's serial number is 149.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Leica Cameras
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.007253
label: accession number
content: 256821
label: catalog number
content: 7253
label: serial number
content: 149
label: serial number
content: 149
objectType: label: Object Name
content: camera