Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wouldn't for a minute suggest that the M doesn't take a lickin' and keep on tickin,' Didier - in fact in all my years I think I've had a rangefinder out of alignment once, and I've never had an M fail me. That said, it does seem odd that it's not better sealed than it is. On 8/26/06 5:38 PM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote: > B.D., > A Leica M is certainly not as water sealed as a D2X, 1DsMkII or a E-1 , > but my > experience is that it stands a certain amount of rain better than many > other > film and digital SLR cameras from the past and from now. I used my M6 on > longer, sometimes very rainy, hikes in the alps and it got rather wet more > than once, without making troubles. I would consider this as rudimentary > sealed, but of course not enough sealed for real professional field work > like > Ted's collegues here: http://tinyurl.com/mjts9 > :-) > Didier > > > At 23:22 26.08.2006, "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote: >> Your fascinating post begs the question, of course, of why Leica never got >> around to providing even the most rudimentary weatherproof seals in its >> high-end cameras. The Ms were, after all, a standard part of many PJs' >> kits >> up until the 80s, if not the 90s, and that means it was a given they would >> be subjected to the elements from time to time. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information