Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] Non-waterproof Leica
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Sat Aug 26 17:51:40 2006
References: <C116639E.144DD%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

It is odd. An interesting historical question. When did weather
sealed cameras become commonplace? I'd certainly appreciate
it if my M6TTL's were weather sealed.  Hmmm. Wonder why
they aren't?  Are there some basic technical considerations in the
M body design?

Scott

B. D. Colen wrote:

>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:
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>>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:
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>>>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.
>>>      
>>>
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