Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Steve Hickel <smhickel@x2.alliance.net> >I like the small footprint of the lens with it in the body. Makes for an >easy to carry camera and lens. No other lens currently sold by Leica offers >that compactness. I learned something about storage in the bag. You mention >the lens cap coming off, I burned up my battery in two days because as best >I can figure the shutter was cocked and the way I had the M6 stored must >have depressed the meter for a long time. The battery was dead after only >using it a few times. > Oh yes, I like the lens very much too. The comparison to an enlarging lens was not meant as disparagement, but of wonder--so small! No significant complaints here. Bummer about the M6 battery; I hope to get an M6 sometime (has anyone in the US gotten a very clean one in the $1300 range recently?) and I admit that I'm very unlikely to keep the shutter set at "B" or keep the camera uncocked, so for me, I guess if the battery goes dead, it goes dead. Seems a waste though. Jeff