Unlike Dummy Models (For instance,
Leica
M3 Dummies) which sometimes only has their
exterior body chassis as well as a companion dummy lens, where mostly they are having
an almost empty interior together with just a front lens element mounted on the dummy
lens. Cutaway Display Units demand more attentive in their details and usually they
have elevated level in technical merit in an eventual cutaway model. Important components
and mechanical parts that deserve viewer attention inside the camera are carefully
being cut-out from the body chassis to show the involving mechanisma dn structures.
Overall, I would still think most of them are still used from factory reject finished
product as the basis of construction of these cutaway models. As comparison to dummy
bodies, cutaway display models are not very often being produced in large quantity.
Most have been serialized and they make excellent display model for decorative display
in private living room and even for corporate office decorative item.
One of the earliest avaiblle cutway
Leica-M model was the Leica M3 Cutway Model. A shown unit was a rare and very early
series which has recorded S/N from 700000~700800. Unlike later Leica-M cutaway models,
the M3 early cutaway display unit has lamost stripped down to bare minimum to enable
see through effect to its interior.
RELATIVE: Differences between DUMMY Models
and Cutaway models. On the other hand, Japanese camera manufacturers were more fond
of using transparent camera to show the internal structure of the specific camera
type. A good example of this kind of display was the Canon T90 Trans model.
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Germany ®, who often conducts another
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who also operates a popular Westlicht Auction House. Image Copyright © 2008. All rights
reserved.
Please respect the visual property of the contributing photographer.
Credit: Image(s) courtesy of Photographic Auction, Germany ®, who often conducts another
popular Online Photograohic Auctions. Image Copyright © 2008. All rights
reserved.
Please respect the visual property of the contributing photographer.
Leica
M6 Cutaway Display Units, 1986
Below is a very early Leica M6 Black
finish Cutaway Display set in original Wetzlar type. Well, it is not entirely cheap
considering at an auction price of approx. EURO 500 start price and a hammer price
of EURO 963-00* where you can safely buy a well used M6 model. The difference
is its uniqueness in able to show various internal components such as thickness of
body walls, which includes PCB (printed circuit Board for metering and exposure calculation)
as well as mechanism in a rangefinder classic M6 Body from few viewable perspectives.
