Leica M4 black paint factory sample camera *
Startpreis
10.000 €
Gebote: 0
20.000 – 24.000 €
Versandnformation
Presented here is a Leica M4 black paint factory sample test camera without serial number, fitted with a Transitional Summicron 2/50 mm lens, also without serial number. Camera and lens are in near-mint condition and fully functional, representing an exceptionally rare insight into Leica’s internal development and testing processes.
The camera originates from the estate of Peter Loseries, an engineer who worked in the Photographic Design Department at Ernst Leitz Wetzlar from 1963 onwards. During his career at Leitz, Loseries was involved in numerous advanced development programs, including the design of a metal-blade focal-plane shutter for a new generation of Leica SLR cameras and early concepts of an electronically controlled Leica M, later often referred to as the “Leica M6 Electronic,” which ultimately never entered series production.
The engineering experience gained during these projects was incorporated into a wide range of experimental and prototype cameras. Loseries was also substantially involved in the further development of the Leicaflex series and contributed, in both a constructive and advisory role, to the technical development of other Leica products, including the Leica CL.
This Leica M4 black paint factory sample thus represents not only an outstanding and extremely rare collectible, but also a direct, personal artifact from one of Leica’s most intensive experimental phases of the 1960s and 1970s, when many innovative concepts existed exclusively as prototypes or factory samples.