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The Leica III is a
Barnack Barnack is a village and civil parish in the Peterborough unitary authority of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England and the historic county of Northamptonshire. Barnack is in the north-west of the unitary authority, south-east of ...
model
rangefinder camera A rangefinder camera is a camera fitted with a rangefinder, typically a split-image rangefinder: a range-finding focusing mechanism allowing the photographer to measure the subject distance and take photographs that are in sharp focus. Most v ...
introduced by
Leica Leica may refer to: Companies * Ernst Leitz GmbH, later divided into: ** Leica Biosystems GmbH, a cancer diagnostics company ** Leica Camera AG, a German camera and optics manufacturer ** Leica Geosystems AG, a Swiss manufacturer of surveying and ...
in 1933, and produced in parallel with the
Leica II The Leica II is a Barnack rangefinder camera introduced by Leica in 1932. They were the first Leica cameras with a built-in rangefinder. Several models were produced over the years, in parallel with the Leica III series from 1933. The Leica II use ...
series. Several models were produced over the years, with significant improvements. The Leica III uses a coupled rangefinder distinct from the viewfinder. The viewfinder is set for a 50mm lens; use of shorter or longer lenses requires installing an alternate viewfinder on the accessory socket.Unification of the rangefinder and the viewfinder occurred with the introduction of the
Leica M3 The Leica M3 is a 135 film, 35 mm rangefinder camera by Ernst Leitz GmbH (now Leica Camera, Leica Camera AG), introduced in 1954. It was a new starting point for Leitz, which until then had only produced screw-mount Leica cameras that were increm ...
, allowing quick framing and focusing in a single operation. The M3 viewfinder is also able to display viewlines for 50, 90 and 135mm lenses


Accessories and miscellaneous images

File:Leica-wide angle IMG 0249.jpg, With a 28mm
wide-angle lens In photography and cinematography, a wide-angle lens is a Photographic lens, lens covering a large angle of view. Conversely, its focal length is substantially smaller than that of a normal lens for a given film plane. This type of lens allows mo ...
and optional viewfinder File:Leica Telyt 400mm IMG 0306.jpg, With a 400mm Telyt lens File:Leica stereoscopic IMG 0252.jpg, With an adapter for stereo-photography File:Leica 3 amber lens.jpg, Orange filter for the Leica III File:Leica IIIf diagramme.jpg, Othographic views of a Leica IIIf with Summicron lens File:Leica IIIc.JPG, Leica IIIc with bellows


Notes and references

*Image for Leica F is actually model IIIa


External links


Leica III
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Leica IIIf 3D model
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