Fotofix - Vintage Cameras

1926 - 1930

The Model B was the second Leica model. Introduced in 1926, and continued  only through 1930, fewer than 1,500 of these front-shutter Leicas were  ever made.

The reason was its Compur  blade-type shutter with speeds from 1 to 1/300th sec. Thus, it offered  slow speeds below the 1/25th sec. limited of the focal-plane Model A. In  the Model B the film-transport and shutter re-set functions were not  combined as in the Model A and all subsequent Leicas) and a very  peculiar frame-counter was mounted to the left of the winding knob  (instead of being co-axial as in the other screw-mount Leicas).