Every Leica that mattered, on one timeline.

The first Leica with a built-in coupled rangefinder, making precise focus on a small camera possible for the first time.

Leitz's deliberate soft-focus portrait lens — a beautifully corrected aberration, reissued in 2017 to collector acclaim.

The most-produced Barnack Leica — added flash synchronization and became the workhorse of mid-century photojournalism.

The first Summicron — a landmark f/2 50mm in collapsible screw-mount form, bridging the barnack era and the M system.

The rigid-barrel successor to the collapsible Summicron — sharper at the edges, more robust, the classic "standard" M lens.

A more affordable M3 stablemate with 35mm framelines — the photographers' choice for wide-angle work.

The classic 50mm f/1.4 M lens — 45 years in production, a benchmark for the "classic Leica look" wide open.

Rapid-load film take-up, angled rewind crank, and framelines for four focal lengths — widely considered the peak of Wetzlar craftsmanship.

The long-running f/1.0 Noctilux — 32 years in production, the dream lens for a generation of available-light photographers.

The compact seven-element Summicron 35mm beloved for unusually smooth out-of-focus rendering — the "Bokeh King" of the M system.

The M6's successor adds TTL flash metering — a taller top plate and reversed shutter dial mark the last metered film M before the electronic M7.

The "Mechanical Perfection" M — a purist film rangefinder with no meter, no electronics, and no compromises, still in production today.

The M6 brought back — a direct response to the film photography revival, with updated framelines and current production quality.

The first digital M — an APS-H sensor in a classic M body, imperfect but historic.

The fastest production 50mm lens in the world at launch — f/0.95 lets in more light than any rival, earning it the title "King of the Night."

The "perfect 50" — APO-corrected, aspherical, and widely regarded as the highest-resolution 50mm lens ever made for any system.

The world's first black-and-white-only digital camera — a sensor stripped of its Bayer color filter to capture nothing but luminance.

The thinnest digital M — matched film-body thickness, restored the ISO dial, and defined the modern M aesthetic.

A 60MP black-and-white-only digital M — the highest-resolution Monochrom ever made, and notably the first M body without the iconic red dot logo.

The world's first camera with built-in Content Credentials (C2PA) — cryptographically signed provenance in every frame.

The first M body with an integrated electronic viewfinder — a historic break from 70 years of optical rangefinder-only M design.

Leica revives the 1959 Summilux optical formula — vintage rendering, brand-new glass.

The first 35mm Noctilux in the line's 60-year history.

Fixed 28mm Summilux f/1.7, full-frame sensor, autofocus — the gateway Leica that brought a new generation to the system.

Leica's first full-frame mirrorless camera — established the L-mount and a new direction for the brand beyond rangefinders.

A "normal" field-of-view Q3 variant with an APO-Summicron 43mm f/2 fixed lens — for photographers who find 28mm too wide.