Glass Bodies a variant-level encyclopedia of vintage lenses and cameras by iwillpat

Bodies · Rangefinder

Interchangeable-lens rangefinders and the glass made for them, 35mm and XPan. 77 families across 7 systems, in the order they appeared.

Leica screw mount

Thirty-five years of Barnack Leicas, from the fixed-lens camera that made 35mm film worth taking seriously to the IIIg that Leitz was still building after the M3 had made it obsolete — and the Canons of 1946 to 1968 that took the same thread, out-built them, and out-sold them.

Barnack screw era

  • Leica I (Model A) — Fixed lens · 1925 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Leica I (Model B) Compur — Fixed lens · 1926 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Leica I (Model C) — LTM mount · 1930 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Leica II (Model D) — LTM mount · 1932 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Leica Standard (Model E) — LTM mount · 1932 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Leica 250 Reporter — LTM mount · 1933 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Leica III (Model F) — LTM mount · 1933 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Leica IIIa (Model G) — LTM mount · 1935 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Leica IIIb — LTM mount · 1938 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Leica IIId — LTM mount · 1939 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Leica IIIc — LTM mount · 1940 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Leica IIc — LTM mount · 1948 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Leica Ic — LTM mount · 1949 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Leica IIIf — LTM mount · 1950 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
  • Leica IIf — LTM mount · 1951 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Leica If — LTM mount · 1952 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Leica 72 — LTM mount · 1954 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Leica Ig — LTM mount · 1957 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Leica IIIg — LTM mount · 1957 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants

Seiki Kōgaku / Canon

  • Canon S-II — LTM mount · 1946 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

II / III / IV

V / L

VI / P / 7

  • Canon VI-T and VI-L — LTM mount · 1958 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Canon P (Populaire) — LTM mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Canon 7 — LTM + Canon 7 bayonet mount · 1961 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Canon 7s and 7sZ — LTM + Canon 7 bayonet mount · 1965 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

Cosina Voigtländer

  • Bessa L — LTM mount · 1999 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Bessa R — LTM mount · 2000 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants

Leica M

One window for focusing and framing, frames that change with the lens, and a bayonet: the M3 settled the shape of the rangefinder camera and Leitz has been refining the same object ever since.

M rangefinder

  • Leica M3 — Leica M mount · 1954 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Leica M2 — Leica M mount · 1957 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
  • Leica M1 — Leica M mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Leica MD — Leica M mount · 1964 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Leica MDa — Leica M mount · 1966 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
  • Leica M4 — Leica M mount · 1967 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
  • Leica M5 — Leica M mount · 1971 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Leica CL — Leica M mount · 1973 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Leica M4-2 — Leica M mount · 1978 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Leica MD-2 — Leica M mount · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Leica M4-P — Leica M mount · 1981 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Leica M6 — Leica M mount · 1984 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
  • Leica M6 TTL — Leica M mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Leica M7 — Leica M mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants

Minolta

  • Minolta CLE — Leica M mount · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

Cosina Voigtländer

  • Bessa T (Bessa-T, Bessa T 101) — Leica M mount · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Bessa R2 — Leica M mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Bessa R2A / R3A — Leica M mount · 2004 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Bessa R2M / R3M — Leica M mount · 2006 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Bessa R4A / R4M — Leica M mount · 2007 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

Contax rangefinder

Zeiss Ikon’s answer to the Leica, and the camera the Soviet Union carried away in 1945: the Contax line and the Kievs that continued it for another forty years.

Contax (Zeiss Ikon)

  • Contax I — Contax RF mount · 1932 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Contax II — Contax RF mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Contax III — Contax RF mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Jena Contax — Contax RF mount · 1946 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Contax IIa — Contax RF mount · 1950 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Contax IIIa — Contax RF mount · 1951 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

Kiev (Arsenal)

  • Kiev II — Contax RF mount · 1947 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Kiev III — Contax RF mount · 1952 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Kiev 4 — Contax RF mount · 1958 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Kiev 5 — Contax RF mount · 1968 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Kiev 4M — Contax RF mount · 1976 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants

Nikon rangefinder

The cameras that turned an optical supplier into a camera maker — from the Nikon I of 1948, built while Japan was still under occupation, to the SP that Nikon put up against the Leica M3.

Nippon Kogaku

  • Nikon I — Nikon S mount · 1948 · 24×32 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Nikon M — Nikon S mount · 1949 · 24×34 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Nikon S — Nikon S mount · 1951 · 24×34 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Nikon S2 — Nikon S mount · 1954 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Nikon SP — Nikon S mount · 1957 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
  • Nikon S3 — Nikon S mount · 1958 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Nikon S4 — Nikon S mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Nikon S3M — Nikon S mount · 1960 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants

Cosina Voigtländer

  • Bessa R2S / R2C — Nikon S + Contax RF mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants

Contax G

The last new rangefinder system: two titanium bodies that focus their Zeiss lenses for you, made from 1994 until Kyocera left cameras in 2005.

  • Contax G1 — Contax G mount · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Contax G2 — Contax G mount · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

Hasselblad XPan

  • Hasselblad XPan (Fujifilm TX-1) — XPan mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Hasselblad XPan II (Fujifilm TX-2) — XPan mount · 2003 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

Canon rangefinder

Canon’s first cameras, built around lenses and rangefinders that Nippon Kogaku made for them.

  • Hansa Canon — Canon Hansa mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants