The LEICA M7 is a manual-focus rangefinder, automatic electronic-shutter 35mm full-frame camera.
It has both manual and aperture-preferred auto exposure modes and works with all LEICA M lenses and accessories made since 1954.
"Rangefinder" means that you focus by lining-up a superimposed image in a separate viewfinder. That's the window on the top right.
Unlike SLRs, you are looking through a separate viewfinder, not through the lens. This lets rangefinder cameras weigh much less, have sharper optics, vibrate less and make less noise than SLRs which require additional prisms, mirrors and mechanics, but it also means that you can't compose anywhere near as accurately as you can with an SLR because you're never looking through the lens. This is why rangefinder cameras went obsolete overnight in the 1960s. Leica continues to make these for a minority of people who prefer small, quiet, simple cameras with superb optics over the convenience and precise composition of SLRs.
You won't appreciate this until you hold one, but the main reason to shoot one of these is because it, and its lenses, are tiny. My M7 and three lenses weigh less than three pounds, total! This light weight encourages me to hike farther and get into places I'd be too lazy to try with DSLRs.
I shoot my M7 digitally, full-frame, by sending my film to NCPS and having them make hi-resolution, low-cost automated scans of all frames at the same time they develop my film. My results match what I get from a 25MP DSLR, and are sharper than anything from a 13MP DSLR.
Unlike DSLRs, the M7 won't be worthless in 18 months. A LEICA M7 costs much less to own and shoot than a DSLR.
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