Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Watch your wallet! You have contracted Leicaitis! Ken Wilcox At 9:39 PM +0000 2/1/0, Les Bonser wrote: >I posted a couple days; a little story about going to the camera store, >actually holding an M6 for the first time, and walking out of the store >without buying it! Obviously, something was wrong with me to pass up on the >opportunity. :-) > >Well, nothing is wrong with me after all. I bought the camera today. > >I called the camera store yesterday to get some more info; the store staff >didn't know the price when I was in there on Saturday. They said the owner >wouldn't be there until today and he was the only one that knew anything >about the Lecias. Called back today and the owner indicated that the camera >was used and he gave me a price for the camera and for the attached 50mm f2 >Summicron lens. > >Went over at lunch. The owner recognized me; I bought my Contax G2 and Lecia >Minilux from the same guy; when he realized I was a repeat customer, he >knocked a couple hundred off the price. The camera felt better the second >time. There was no manual, but he showed me some "tricks" with the camera >(mainly how to load it). The rest seemed easy to figure out. > >I thought about it for about five minutes and eventually decided to buy it. >The only wear marks are a couple very minor scratches on the knurling (is >this the right word? you know the little ridges on the edge) of the battery >compartment cover. > >Ran a roll of TX through the camera after getting home. The roll is hanging >in the bathroom right now drying. The pictures look pretty good (at least at >a quick glance while wet!). > >The only problem I've had so far is that the lens didn't have a lens cap and >both the store where I bought it and another one near work didn't have one >in the right size. > >I compared the M6 side-by-side with my G2: I think I still like the feel of >the G2 better, but the M6 is very definitely quieter. I'm looking forward to >doing more side-by-side comparisons. > >Les - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>