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By 1961 the M3 had reached its settled form: the single stroke advance adopted in 1958, the metal film pressure plate of 1957 and the modern geometric shutter speed sequence introduced the same year. Chrome was the standard finish and covers nearly all of the 233,209 M3 numbers assigned between 1954 and 1966, black paint accounting for only 1,320. The 0.91x finder, 68.5mm rangefinder base and automatic 50, 90 and 135mm framelines are as they were from the start.