The Leica M2 is a rangefinder camera made in Wetzlar, Germany, and Midlands, Canada for a very small number of now collectors models. My M2 was made in 196-, it shows significant signs of use and has been serviced sometime in the past in Sweden by an official service centre, this camera seems to have been around a fair bit before it got to me in the UK. The M2 is the model after the M3 it was designed as a cheaper model, with an inferior viewfinder, but has more useful framelines than the M3, having 35,50,90 as opposed to the 50,90,135 of the M3. It also has an inferior user set frame counter.
The specifications are fairly simple, cloth focal plane shutter, speeds from 1-1000th and B, frame lines for 35,50,90mm lenses and an M Mount, which can use LTM/L39 lenses with an adapter.
As you would expect from Leitz, this camera is of the highest quality, with everything being smooth and precise and well fitted, right down to the take-up spool. This camera comes in several variants, mine is a common M2 with a selftimer and rewind lever, as opposed to an M2 with no selftimer and a button rewind, the M2 is one of the cheaper ways to get into the Leica M series, but still an expensive way to get into this system, otherwise a much cheaper alternative would be a Cosina Voigtlander Bessa R2 and that even has a built in meter.
