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Re:Canon has sold its last film camera by jen729w on Thursday May 31, 2018 @04:50PM (#17200113)
The MP is a “regular” film camera. It’s the final Mx in the film line, my understanding being that the ‘P’ stands for ‘Perfection’.

If the ISO dial on the back were metal and not plastic, it may well be perfect. I’ve heard of people switching out the dial from older M4/5/6s.

Source: I have one.

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Re:Canon has sold its last film camera by Darthy on Saturday June 02, 2018 @07:21AM (#17214056)
Well, the "M" in the regular Leica M-Series means "Messsucher". The M in "MP" means "mechanical" (as in "mechanical perfection"). So based on that one could argue that the MP isn't part of the regular series :-)
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