Leica Model FF

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Ernst Leitz GmbH
NATIONALITY: German
PLACE MANUFACTURED: Germany, Wetzlar
OBJECT NAME VARIATIONS:
  Leica 250
  Leica Reporter
  Leica Model GG
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1934
PRODUCTION DATES: 1934 - 1953
FILM TYPE: 35mm rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 24 x 36mm
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $178.50 w/o lens
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 700
SERIAL NUMBER RANGE: 130001 to 353916
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: 35mm rangefinder
1 LINKED COMPONENT:
LENS: 5cm f/3.5 Elmar UID: L533.00103
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: 5cm f/3.5 Elmar
INTERCHANGEABLE LENS: Yes    INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  The FF or Reporter is a Leica Model D designed to take 250 exposures
  on 33 feet of film. Easily distinguished by the large film chambers at
  each end of the camera, which hold special film cassettes. It is
  a cassette to cassette camera, the film is not re-wound from the
  take-up spool. Available in black enamel body with nickle fittings or
  black enamel body with chrome fittings. Chrome versions exist, but
  factory records do not list these cameras. Later cameras have top
  shutter speed of 1/1000. These cameras are sometimes called Model GG,
  but this was not a factory designation.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: L533.00041

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Hasbroeck, Paul-Henry van. --150 Classic Cameras: From 1839 to the Present.-- London: Sotheby's Publications, 1989. p 140.//
Lager, James L. --Leica: An Illustrated History - Volume I - Cameras.-- Closter, NJ: Lager Limited Editions, 1993. pp 50-55.//