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Specification

Manufacturer description #1

Robust all-metal body, a shutter that does not depend on batteries, and perfect quality of fabrication: that makes the mechanical LEICA R6.2 the ideal single lens reflex camera for creative photography under all climatic conditions.

Manufacturer description #2

As LEICA R6, but with mechanically controlled shutter speeds from 1/2000 to 1 s. Improved, easier-to-read frame counter with magnifyer-window.

Manufacturer description #3

Plus points of the LEICA R6.2 at a glance

• The classic, timeless styling of the LEICA R6.2 stands out for its elegance and ergonomic functionality. Its sturdy all-metal body is compact and easy to handle.
• Convenient control elements assure fast and confident picture-taking.
• Reliable electronic exposure metering leads to accurate exposures, even under extreme conditions. In bone-chilling cold and in stifling heat.
• The correct exposure can be determined with either selective or integral exposure metering.
• TTL flash exposure metering makes flash pictures as easy and as certain as photographs taken in daylight.
• All relevant exposure information is displayed in the bright and brilliant viewfinder of the LEICA R6.2.
• In addition to the Universal Focusing Screen that is normally supplied with the LEICA R6.2, there are four additional interchangeable focusing screens available as accessories.
• Built-in eyepiece correction, adjustable from +2 to –2 diopters.
• Mirror lock-up helps to prevent vibrations.
• High-performance lenses from 16 to 800 mm are compatible with earlier as well as future LEICA R cameras.
• Perfectly compatible accessories permit the LEICA R system to be tailored to individual requirements.
• Leica Customer Service, more than 100 Leica representations all over the world, as well as an extensive network of authorized Leica dealers, assure qualified service virtually everywhere in the world.

From the Photo Technique International magazine (3/1992)

What camera can stand up to the rigours of professional photography with such complacency as the Leica R6? Arved Fuchs took the all-mechanical R6 with him to the North and South Poles; Sebastiao Salgado, a photojournalist of international fame, used it to record the burning oil fields in Kuwait. Whether subjected to 130 degrees of heat or minus 60 of cold, the R6 has shown that it is not so easily upset. Experience has proved that under extreme conditions and when the treatment is rough, a mechanical camera is more reliable than versions of a similar instrument adorned with electronic refinements. The wider creative freedom involved is quite another matter, of course.

The Leica R6 was introduced in 1988. That event came 15 vears after the appearance of the legendary Leicaflex SL2. Here we have a subsequent, modified model of the R6. There is little to distinguish it externally from the original R6 - were it not for that "R6.2" engraved on the front. You have to look for the additional figure "2000" on the shutter speed wheel. The top speed of 1/2000 second was made possible through reducing the weight of the blades in the rear curtain and then improving the running characteristics of the mechanically controlled focal-plane shutter. Moreover, the camera is even quieter. The second point modified concerns the frame counter which is now situated directly in front of the shoulder of the rapid-advance lever. The figure is easier to read by virtue of a tiny magnifying lens.

Leica R6.2 special editions (3)

• Leica R6.2 Gold "30th Anniversary Singapore" (150 units) - August 1995
• Leica R6.2 Gold "Hong Kong ’97" (300 units) - July 1997
• Leica R6.2 "75 Jahre Photo Schaja" [10074] - 1993