It is not winning by numbers, but a perfect, meticulous, precise and reliable fuselage, such as M3, which can be used for decades.
The birth of Leica camera makes the camera more compact and accurate. Due to the technical aesthetic value of Leica cameras, Leica products have profound and extensive cultural connotations.
The classic screw Leica camera is undoubtedly the masterpiece of small camera. Screw Leica camera has influenced the development of several generations of small cameras because of its creativity in design. Products that imitate Leica also came into being. From Leica type I to Leica type III, Leica spiral camera is quite mature in technology and complete in performance. Its main contribution lies in the following aspects:
Adopt high-precision aluminum alloy body suitable for large-scale industrial production to realize miniaturization and lightweight of the camera;
2. The small focal plane shutter and multi-stage damping system that can control the accurate exposure time greatly improve the exposure accuracy and range of the camera;
3. Unify the positioning distance of the fuselage image plane and realize the lens standardization exchange mechanism;
4. Create a multi-component system centered on the fuselage, which greatly broadens the application scope of the camera;
5. The optical level of the camera is further improved.
Leica M3 came out in 1954, which was the heyday of Leica cameras. On the one hand, it inherits the excellent quality of Leica, on the other hand, it greatly improves the traditional model to adapt to the development of the times. This situation is a bit like Canon EOS giving up FD system in the future. The improvement of M3 mainly includes the following six aspects:
1, built-in viewfinder with equal brightness frame and automatic parallax compensation mechanism;
2, equipped with automatic reset film counter;
3. Changing the rotary film conveying mechanism into a torque film conveying mechanism;
4. Change the spiral lens connection into bayonet lens connection;
5. Enable the new non-rotating shutter speed regulating wheel;
6. A new type of split-knife linkage electronic exposure meter.
Whether it is the classic paraxial series or the single-lens reflex series, Leica is increasingly condensed or expressed as a culture, and its use value may have become less important to Leica, or it is just one aspect of Leica. Today, with the constant impact of digitalization on tradition, Leica is more likely to be regarded as tradition. The traditional expression is history, without which there is no future. Looking at the development of the camera industry, people can't help saying: Leica, a symbol of history!