Leica IIIc grey

iiic grey was made between 1942 to 1944. like most painted military cameras (such as olive m1, m3, m4s, grey m2 etc.) they are all equipped with silver chrome parts for shutter buttons, film rewind knob, film etc…. basically, all buttons, handles and knobs that are potentially heavily used, will not be painted. Leica iiic grey was made primary for german military (some were shipped to u.s. military too) during the world war ii. as expected, chrome or any types of metal were in extremely shortage during the war. as a result, some iiic were painted grey instead of using chrome to plate over brass. the grey paint used on iiic grey also resembles the military grey of the german military uniform. but different batches of grey painted iiic have different paint texture and different grey colour and it can actually be traced by their serial number (e.g. 387xxx tend to be lighter grey, 388xxx tend to have a more matt finish, some of 390xxx are almost black). With Summitar 2/50 ser.no. 555039, filter