Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I understand the experience--I have an M4, M6 (Classic), M7 and M8. For convenience of producing images, M8 is tops with the convenience of a model going down as age goes up. For "feel" and "smoothness" in handling and taking pictures, it runs the exact opposite--M4 the best feel, other models getting rougher as age decreases. No, I don't think it's smoothing out with exercise. ric On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>wrote: > >> However, having owned and shot an MDa, M3, M2, M42, 2 CL's, CLE, 3 m5's, >> 3 >> m6's, 2 m7's and an M8, my favorite M is my Wetzlar M6, It has griptac, >> M3 >> wind lever, cleaned up framelines with no flare finder. Yummy. Elegant. >> I >> only wish it was brass like the M4. > >> My M3 was not a camera to love. I hated the loading, so I got the fast >> load kit, I hated the double stroke, so I had Ken Ruth convert it to >> single >> stroke. While a handsome camera, I never loved it. > >> To me, the classic M6 is the best replaceable sensor camera ever made by >> Leica. > ====================================================================================================================================== > As George says, YMMV. I love the M3. I've used M2R, M3 DS and SS, and > M4-2, but I keep coming back to the M3, mostly for the high mag finder. > And I used to have MUCH more trouble loading the M4-2 than I ever did with > the separate spool. I think the fast load kit was the worst of all three > systems. I wish there was an M3 with built-in meter; I handled an M6 at a > store once, and it felt cheap compared to the M3 and M2 (plus it had the > too-wide VF). > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information