The M3 introduced several features to the Leica, among them the combination of viewfinder and rangefinder in one bright window, like on the Contax II, and a bayonet lens mount. It was a new starting point for Leitz, which until then had only produced screw-mount Leica cameras that were incremental improvements to its original Leica (Ur-Leica). The Leica M3 is a 35 mm rangefinder camera by Ernst Leitz GmbH (now Leica Camera AG), introduced in 1954. Many considered the pre-war Contax the “professional” 35mm camera, while the Leica was for amateurs. The Zeiss Contax was arguably the best 35mm rangefinder made before WWII, with a larger range of faster and sharper lenses than Leica. Here pictured with a 3.5cm f/3.5 interchangeable lens (Nikon S bayonet mount) and a separate Varifocal (Type I) viewfinder in the accessory (cold) shoe. Nikon S2 (1955) #6136284 – A 35mm rangefinder professional film camera made in 1955 according to serial number. All F4 models were discontinued soon after, in May 1997. Nikon introduced its next flagship model, the F5, in 1996. The F4 replaced the F3, which was a manual focus camera produced from 1980 until 2000. The F4 is able to accept any of Nikon’s manual focus (MF) or AF lenses from 1959 to the present day. With industrial design by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the F4 was the first professional Nikon to feature a practical autofocus system.
It was also the first of numerous Nikon F-series cameras to be styled by Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, and to include a red stripe on the handgrip – a feature that would later become a signature feature of many Nikon cameras. The Nikon F3 series cameras had the most model variations of any Nikon F camera. Introduced in 1980, it had manual and semi-automatic exposure control whereby the camera would select the correct shutter speed (aperture priority automation). The F-series do not share any major components except for the all important bayonet lens mount (F mount). The F2 is the second member of the long line of Nikon F-series professional level 35 mm SLRs that began with the Nikon F. It was replaced by the quite similar Nikon F2. Although many of the concepts had already been introduced elsewhere, it was revolutionary in that it was the first to combine them all in one camera. It was one of the most advanced cameras of its day. The Nikon F camera, introduced in April 1959, was Nikon’s first SLR camera.
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