A 110-film prototype Leica 110 camera, the top-plate with applied badge Leitz Wetzlar, side-panels with tripod screw, wrist strap and flash cube socket, the back-plate with film door, internal battery compartment, the baseplate with focusing dial marked 0.5m (1.7ft) to infinity (80ft), aperture dial from 2-16 and film advance, direct vision finder and front-plate with rangefinder lens, shutter sensor, lens cover and marked Leica 110 and with a Leitz Summicron f/2 26mm. lens.

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A 110-film prototype Leica 110 camera, the top-plate with applied badge Leitz Wetzlar, side-panels with tripod screw, wrist strap and flash cube socket, the back-plate with film door, internal battery compartment, the baseplate with focusing dial marked 0.5m (1.7ft) to infinity (80ft), aperture dial from 2-16 and film advance, direct vision finder and front-plate with rangefinder lens, shutter sensor, lens cover and marked Leica 110 and with a Leitz Summicron f/2 26mm. lens.

出版

James Lager (1993), Leica. An Illustrated History. Volume I - Cameras, p. 143.
Dennis Laney (1992), leica Collectors Guide, p. 98-99.
Shinichi Nakamura (1991), Leica Collection, p. 104.

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Condition: 3F.

拍品專文

From 1974.
The Leica 110 was produced as a prototype with the intention of taking advantage of the newly launched Kodak 110 film cartridge. According to Laney it was to have been shown at Photokina in 1974 but a reappraisal led Leitz to cancel the project. An accompanying 110 projector (see lot 225) was manufactured for a short period.
With the advanced state of the project several working cameras seem to have been made for demonstration and testing. An example exists in the Leica factory museum and two examples have been offered at auction in recent years.