1926 - Leica Model A

這台徠卡A型（徠卡I型），序號1336，代表傳奇的開端。它生產於1926年—徠卡I型正式推出的第二年—是35毫米微型攝影時代的早期見證者之一。由於存世量極低，徠卡I型的正式生產大約始於序號100左右，因此序號1336是全球首批1300台量產徠卡相機之一。在這個階段，每台相機都由韋茨拉爾的技術人員手工組裝和調整，因此每台相機都存在顯著的個體差異，並帶有手工打造的痕跡。規格尚未標準化；每個鏡頭都經過單獨校準，並與特定的機身一一匹配。

THIS LEICA MODEL A (LEICA I), SERIAL NUMBER 1336, REPRESENTS THE GENESIS OF A LEGEND. PRODUCED IN 1926—THE SECOND YEAR LEICA I WAS OFFICIALLY INTRODUCED—IT STANDS AS ONE OF THE EARLIEST WITNESSES TO THE ERA OF 35MM MINIATURE PHOTOGRAPHY. WITH EXTREMELY LOW SURVIVAL RATES, PRODUCTION OFFICIALLY BEGAN AROUND SN 100, MAKING SN 1336 ONE OF THE FIRST 1,300 MASS-PRODUCED LEICAS WORLDWIDE. AT THIS STAGE, EVERY CAMERA WAS MANUALLY ASSEMBLED AND ADJUSTED BY TECHNICIANS IN WETZLAR, CHARACTERIZED BY SIGNIFICANT INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS AND A HAND-CRAFTED FINISH. SPECIFICATIONS WERE NOT YET STANDARDIZED; EACH LENS WAS INDIVIDUALLY CALIBRATED AND PAIRED ONE-TO-ONE WITH ITS SPECIFIC BODY.