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The original Leicaflex of 1964 was Leitz's first SLR: a heavy, precisely built body with a 1 second to 1/2000s shutter and a CdS cell in the front housing rather than through-the-lens metering, which is what ended it in 1968 after roughly 37,500 cameras, mostly silver chrome with about 1,000 in black paint. The Elmarit-R 35mm f/2.8 alongside it is Rudolf Ruehl's 1964 design, seven elements in six groups, here in the black 11201 form built from 1968.