There is a special limited edition set from Leica to celebrate their 100 years of Leica photography. It was announced at the newly opened Leitz Park in Wetzlar on 23 May 2013. The M Edition 100 Special Edition includes the mechanical rangefinder film camera, the Leica M-A and the digital B&W rangefinder camera, Leica M Monochrom, together with 3 Summilux lenses, 28mm 35mm and 50mm.
Stainless steel is used as the material for the M Edition 100 set, which is a very difficult material to handle on the camera bodies and lenses with a special coating treatment to avoid finger marks and improve durability. The sets will be supplied with a high quality Rimowa case, and the Kodak Tri-X 400 film. The M Edition 100 set comes with a very unique serial number arrangement, that end with 4 digits of the year between 1914 and 2014.
There are 25 sets of prototype for the Leica M Edition 100 are made.
