Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree that a well maintained M camera should be fine. However, I do feel that there are very few well maintained M cameras out there what with everyone's fascination with original "L" seals and other never been touched by impure hands nonsense. I must disagree with doing any important work with only one camera. M cameras do break down, accidents happen and theft is always a possibility as well. One of the beauties of an M system is that an extra body or two really takes up hardly any more space and adds little weight as well. John > From: SthRosner@aol.com > >> bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: >> >> if you need to depend upon your cameras to deliver the proverbial >> bacon, then it makes little sense not to use a 1-10-year-old camera, rather >> than a 40 to almost 50 year old camera. Things get old, they wear out and >> die. Just like people. >> > > ........not quite, b.d. I haven't run as many rolls through it as a > professional would but I believe that my 35 year-old M4 (CLA'd when needed) > is as reliable as my M6. I'd have no hesitation in taking it as my sole body > on a month-long trek in the African veldt or the Himalayas. The beauty of > these cameras - and that includes the M6 - is that with maintenance and parts > replacement when necessary, they appear to have no real limit to their useful > lives. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html