LEOTAX T 2L Elite vintage Leica Copy camera. Leonon 5cm/2 lens. Box. Case. Cap

(Elite) 35mm film rangefinder camera with Leonon. Vintage Leotax T 2L Elite 35mm film rangefinder camera. Japanese copy of the classic Leica 35mm rangefinder cameras.

Uses M39 LTM screw mount lenses. Shutter speeds are 1/500-1 sec.

Later model with lever wind film advance. Ex++/Mint- or 9 of 10.

Couple if very small minor spots of pitting in the chrome finish on the top and bottom plates. Black finish rigid barrel 5cm standard lens.

Aperture range is f/2 to f/22. Close focus down to 1m.

Distance scale is marked in meters. Ex++ or 9 out of 10. Couple of minor small coating marks on the front that will have no affect on your photos. Overall very nice condition original Leonon lens.

Comes with original front lens cap. Camera comes with original box, case, and original pack of vintage Leotax silica gel. The company was founded in January 1938 by Nakagawa Kenzo as Kyoei-sha, based in Nippori, Tokyo.

The company was renamed G. Showa Kogaku at the end of 1938. The company's most emblematic product was the Leotax, a.

Style 35mm camera, initially made with an uncoupled rangefinder. However during the early years, the company's main activity was the production of the more pedestrian.

The company became Showa Kogaku Seiki K. Some point, certainly after World War II.

In 1942 with the introduction of the Leotax Special A and Special B the company adopted a coupled short base rangefinder with a scissor strut arrangement for the sensor arm, presumably to circumvent Leica patents. This sensor arm arrangement necessitated moving the viewfinder of the original Leotax from just above the lens to a position at the extreme left of the top cover as viewed from the rear.

Early Leotax Leica type cameras were nicely finished externally but very crudely finished inside, but internal quality started to improve with the DII and DIII although early rangefinders in these cameras were still crude. By the model DIV of 1950 the Leotax was a sound camera, and at it's the intoduction in 1954 the Leotax F with diecast chassis was the sturdiest Japanese Leica copy as well as the largest. RF, the camera was one of the main Japanese. Copies, gradually improved until the late 1950s. The company was also making improved.

Models, as well as the. The company was renamed Leotax Camera K. It made rangefinder cameras until 1961, the last model being the.

An advanced camera inspired by the. This vintage collectible Leotax T 2L camera with Leonon 5cm f/2 standard lens sells with NO RESERVE at price of.