Kit lens
Lumen 35 / 2
¥98,000
Standard · M-mount
The everyday lens: seven elements, soft corners wide open, razor sharp at f/8.
Weight
210 g
Filter
39 mm
Lumen M1 · Batch 01
A camera that needs no battery.
Lumen M1 is a fully mechanical 35 mm rangefinder, assembled by four people in Kyoto. Brass top plate, cloth shutter, a viewfinder you can live in.
1/1000 s
Fastest shutter
0.72×
Viewfinder
400
Cameras per batch
M1 · Brass / Silver
Shutter
Cloth · mechanical
Mount
Leica M
Portra 400
HP5 Plus
Ektar 100
Tri-X 400
CineStill 800T
Gold 200
The M1, up close
Six controls. Nothing else.
Everything you need to make a photograph is on the outside of the camera.
1
Shutter dial
B to 1/1000 s on a cloth focal-plane shutter. Clicks you can count blind.
2
Rangefinder window
Bright 0.72× finder with frame lines for 28, 35, 50 and 90.
3
Advance lever
Single-stroke, 140° throw, brass with a bakelite tip.
1
2
3
4
5
6
4
Film counter
Mechanical, resets when you open the back.
5
Rewind crank
Folds flat into the top plate.
6
M-mount
Takes every Leica M lens made since 1954.
Sample rolls
Shot on the M1, in Kyoto.
Higashiyama · Portra 400
Kyoto station · 800T
Gion · HP5
Sannenzaka · Gold 200
Kamogawa · Ektar 100
Contact sheet · roll 07
Lenses
Four lenses for one camera.
Popular
Lumen 50 / 1.4
¥148,000
Portrait · M-mount
A fast fifty with a rounded eleven-blade aperture for night streets and faces.
Weight
320 g
Filter
46 mm
Compact
Lumen 28 / 2.8
¥88,000
Wide · M-mount
Small enough for a jacket pocket. Zone-focus at f/8 and stop thinking.
Weight
150 g
Filter
34 mm
New
Lumen 90 / 2.8
¥128,000
Tele · M-mount
A slim short tele for details and candid portraits across the street.
Weight
280 g
Filter
39 mm
Reserve · Batch 01
The M1, itemised.
Reserve with a ¥30,000 deposit. We email you when your camera is on the bench, with its serial number and the name of the person assembling it.
LUMEN
M1 / 0127
Body
Lumen M1 · brass / silver
Lens
Lumen 35 / 2
Strap
Vegetable-tanned leather
Film
2 × Portra 400
Service
Lifetime CLA
Ships
March 2027
Total
¥398,000
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Deposit ¥30,000 · refundable
“The M1 is the first new camera in twenty years that made me want to shoot slower. It disappears in the hand.”
Haruki Sato
Street photographer · Osaka
Darkroom letter
Notes from the bench.
A short letter each month: what we are building, which film we are shooting and when the next batch opens.
Dec 26
Batch 02 opens
Feb 27
50 / 1.4 lens release
Mar 27
Batch 01 ships
