Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:34 PM 1/6/2001 -0500, Bill Harting wrote: >The M3 takes those wonderful Leica cassettes for the load-your-own-film >types. The self timer is useful. The finder can be clear.... check it out. >They may require service every ten or twenty years depending on use... It's >pretty. To be fair, all Leica LTM and M cameras will take the cassettes. With the late M6's, the baseplate should be replaced with that for the M4-2. And when the M3's were sold new, an annual CLA was strongly recommended though, at this point, these were not easy to arrange in the US -- by the time of the M4, Leitz had managed to put a trained repairman in most American camera stores, so the M4 is more in need of these annual CLA's than is the M3 or M2. Don't fret too much over the RF. I've been using M's for years, and the only RF I had go blonko on me was that on an M4. My M3 RF's have just kept on keeping on, without a problem. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!