Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] 2nd M-body recommendation
From: alex at hellofan.com (Alex Fan)
Date: Mon Nov 15 18:40:11 2004

Hi,  I am new to LUG and M.  I have started to use M camera for about 6
months.  I started with a user M2, a 50mm cron lens and a handheld meter.
It has been wonderful experiences of using this camera to take photos and
now 90% of my photos are taken by this camera, my SLR, DSLR and digital
camera are seating quietly inside dry boxes.  In the past couple of
months,  I have also bought a 35 cron and 28 Elmarit,  the 35'con is now
my favorite lens.  I like to use wide lens rather than tele lens.

I am now considering to buy a 2nd body.  However, I am in a dilemma of
which M body to buy.  Shall it be body with meter (M6 / M6 TTL) or another
purely mechanical one (M2 / M3 or M4).  MP and M7 is out of my range.
Logically speaking a M6 or M6 ttl seems to be a good complement of a M2
and the VF of M6 seems to be brighter than M2.  However the quality of
build of M2 seems better than M6.  I gradually get used to the way of
using camera with no internal meter but it is no harm to have additional
convenience of a build-in meter.

Any suggestions to me.

Thx
Alex Fan




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