Wow thanks everybody! Mine's from 1939, I checked the serial on the net and it was from a batch of a thousand apparently. It's in perfect condition though, feels like somebody shut it up in a drawer and forgot about it. The lens is a 1938 Summitar 50mm 1:2 in good working order, but the aperture ring is rather stiff. I'm a first year photography student and I wanted a camera that would force me to think about the actual process of taking a picture, hence the Leica. Also they are nothing short of legendary and I've always dreamed of owning one, and this one popped up cheap. I've only had it a week and I'm growing to love it, now I've just got to learn to use it... Does anybody know whether anything about differences between film now and in '39 in terms of what was the standard? Was it a 100? I'm using a b/w TX 400 at the mo but seeing as the aperture only closes down as far as f12.5, even if I go up to the fastest shutter speed I get the feeling I'm going to have a whole lot of very thick, if not entirely black, negatives.
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