Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Steve: > ...yeah, but Seth, Roy was notoriously conservative in any tolerance towards > change with Leica models. Personnaly I have M2s, M3, M6TTLs and they are > equally well made IMHO. Some people have complained that the M6 has some > plastic parts compared to the M2/3/4 metal parts -- plastic? so what? There > are plastic parts on the space shuttle and the Corvette body is plastic. > > Regards, > > sl Yeah but in his last VIEWFINDER article before his passing, Roy was shockingly generous in his evaluation of the MP, not only in its return to some of the iconic features of the earlier M cameras, chiefly M3, but in his assessment of thefeeling that the camera represents a return to dedication to the best available quality. Some may deride allusion to the tactile sense of strength, of smoothness, of quality, that oozed into the hands from the screw-mount and earlier M cameras. But it is there and it is real. Here's Roy: "The MP looks and feels like a professional camera and in my opinion is definitely NOT simply a made-over M6 but a brand-new offering.........Using the MP is a delight......It is a straightforward, intuitive all-mechanical camera tha embodies what a Leica should be. It inspires confidence........What really stands out is the beefier M<3 feel of the film advance........I am told that the MP uses impvoed and heavier duty gears than its predecssor with lkess pplastic in the internal parts and it feels like it............The Leica MP seems to me to be a totally new camera that looks and feels better than any previous Solms M camera that I have handled." If you went inside an M6 with Sherry, Don or John and compared it with an M2, M3 or M4, you simply would not say that they were equally well-made. Would you trade a plastic Corvette body shell for a steel or aluminum Pininfarina body for a Ferrari? I certainly would not. That said, my everday camera is an early classic Wetzlar M6 and since 1985 or 86 it has given me impeccable service with never a hiccup or need for return to Northvale for repair. Further deponent sayeth not. Seth LaK 9 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html