Leica M7

Leica · Leica M mount · 24×36mm on 35mm film, loaded through the base · 2002

Also known as: Leica M7 · Leica M7 0.58 · Leica M7 titanium · ライカM7

Variants & identification

Variant	Mount	Years	Serial ranges	Production
0.72× finder	Leica M	2002–2018	—	The standard version
0.85× finder	Leica M	2002–2018	—	No separate figure published
0.58× finder	Leica M	2002–2018	—	No separate figure published
With the MP viewfinder	Leica M	2007–2018	—	No figure published
Titanium, 50 Years of the M	Leica M	2004–2004	—	1,000 cameras
50th anniversary of Midland	Leica M	2002–2018	—	50 cameras

Flash sync is 1/50 s, a limit the M7 shares with every film M and one that costs it the ambient-light latitude a leaf shutter would give (35mmc).
In Bulb the finder counts the exposure in seconds up to 999 — about sixteen minutes — then blanks the display to save the cell. The shutter stays open indefinitely after that; current is needed only to close it (Ken Rockwell).
DX coding is read over ISO 25 to 5,000. Ken Rockwell records that the original electrical DX contacts were replaced in later production by an optical infra-red LED reader, and the rangefinder improved at the same time — an independent account of the mid-run change this entry otherwise has only from the forum research the Leica Wiki cites.
The 0.58× finder (Will asked, 2026-09-10): it shows 28/90, 35 and 50/75 and drops the 135 frame; Japanese dealers (Sunrise Camera) recommend it outright for 28 and 35 users, Used Camera Tracker calls it and the 0.85 'noticeably scarcer than the 0.72 and tend to cost more', and the general advice that it suits glasses wearers comes with the caveat, from an M7 owner who is one, that whether you see the wide frames depends on the glasses and where your eye sits, not on the number alone. No review written from behind a 0.58 M7 was found: Osborne's is a 0.85, Pauley's and Rockwell's the 0.72.

How to tell them apart (expand)

An A setting on the shutter dial — aperture priority, the first on any M
Shutter speeds displayed as LED numerals in the finder
DX film-speed reading, which no earlier M has
1/60 and 1/125 marked in a different colour: the only two speeds that work without a battery

0.72× finder:

Order numbers 10503 black chrome, 10504 silver chrome

0.85× finder:

Order number 10505, black chrome

0.58× finder:

Order number 10560, silver chrome

With the MP viewfinder:

From serial 2885000, the MP's flare-resistant finder is fitted; DX contacts follow somewhat later

Titanium, 50 Years of the M:

Titanium finish, anniversary marking

50th anniversary of Midland:

Marked for fifty years of Leitz in Midland, Ontario

With the MP viewfinder: The change comes from forum research the Leica Wiki cites rather than from a Leica announcement, so the serial should be treated as approximate.
50th anniversary of Midland: A German-built camera commemorating the Canadian factory that kept the M alive in the 1970s and 80s.

Specifications

Format: 24×36mm on 35mm film, loaded through the base
Finder: Combined viewfinder and coupled rangefinder with LED exposure display and shutter-speed readout · 0.72× magnification · 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, 90mm, 135mm framelines · automatic, in pairs — 35/135, 50/75, 28/90 · automatic parallax correction
Shutter: focal plane, rubberised cloth, electronically timed · 32s – 1/1000 in automatic; 1/60 and 1/125 mechanical, working with a dead battery
Meter: Centre-weighted TTL metering off the shutter curtain, driving aperture-priority automation with exposure lock; TTL flash; two triangular LEDs and a central circle show the correction needed, and flash to warn that the reading is outside the metering range.
Country: Germany
Original price: No launch-year price has been found. Ken Rockwell's dated US prices give $4,600 new in January 2009, $5,000 in 2011 and again in April 2014, and $4,400 in December 2015.

Figures we worked out rather than found: Two mechanical speeds out of about twenty — the M7 is 90% dependent on its battery

Where sources disagree

Last year of production

Current, on the Leica Wiki's page as written
2018, when Leica discontinued it

Better supported: 2018

The Leica Wiki page has not been updated since production ended; its production era line still reads 2002–Current. This entry records 2018 and flags the source's staleness rather than repeating it.

What reviewers say

Ken Rockwell (blog) — He shoots it for its size, silence and optics, but names the slightly defective rangefinder design and the flaky DX-coding readout of early samples as the camera's worst faults, both since corrected by Leica.
David Pauley – 35mmc (blog) — Aperture priority and the centre-weighted meter gave him accurate exposures across colour, slide and black-and-white film and made flash easy, but he returned the camera inside the trial month because its pictures were no better than what his M3 had been giving him for far less money.

History

The M7 is the M that finally accepted a battery. Its shutter is electronically timed, which buys aperture-priority automation, exposure lock, shutter speeds displayed in the finder as numerals, and DX reading of the film cartridge — none of which any earlier M offers. Leica kept 1/60 and 1/125 mechanical and marked them in a different colour, so a dead cell leaves you with two speeds rather than a paperweight, but the honest description is that this camera does not work without power.

That was the split. Leica introduced the MP the following year for photographers who wanted the opposite, and from 2003 the M line ran as two cameras: one that helps and one that refuses to. Both were sold new for fifteen years.

Three finder magnifications carried over from the M6 TTL — 0.58×, 0.72× and 0.85× — and the M7 quietly improved in the middle of its run: from around serial 2885000 it received the MP’s flare-resistant rangefinder, and DX contacts changed somewhat later. Both of those come from forum research the Leica Wiki cites rather than from any Leica announcement, so the serial is a guide rather than a boundary.

Among the special editions, one is worth pausing on. Fifty cameras marked the fiftieth anniversary of Leitz in Midland, Ontario — a German-built, battery-dependent automatic Leica commemorating the Canadian factory that had kept the entirely mechanical M alive through the years when Wetzlar had stopped building it.

One correction to the source. The Leica Wiki’s production era still reads “2002-Current”; Leica discontinued the M7 in 2018. The page simply has not been updated, which is worth knowing about a wiki that is otherwise the best record this system has.

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This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.

Photographs

Leica M7, chrome — Rama, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 fr)

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