The camera laid the foundation for an entirely new kind of photography and influenced the 35 mm camera design for years to come. Since the camera utilized the relatively inexpensive motion picture film, twelve pictures now could be made for the price of a single 5 x 7 plate and 40 exposures could be made in a single loading. But unlike any camera before, this was an entirely new design, one that for the first time combined film transport and shutter cocking mechanisms and avoided the possibility of accidental double exposure. To avoid exposure during winding, a small disc, directly attached to the lens, had to be swung into place to make the camera light tight. The camera did not yet have a self capping focal plane shutter. It wasn’t until much later that it was called the Ur Leica. Many improvements were to come later, but most of the features of the production cameras were already present in that unnamed experimental camera. Thus the first Leica camera came into existence.
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