Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/26

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Subject: [Leica] The M5
From: len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:52:49 -0500
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Hello Vince,

I have a M5 and love the camera. It has been recalibrated to use  
modern batteries and works perfectly. It's a little heavier then the  
other M bodies and a couple lenses can't be used because of  
interference with the swing up meter. But it handles very nicely and  
is one of my favorites. If my memory serves me right I think Richard  
Man had one as well.  I'm also sure some of the collector's in the  
group have one. I have never heard it described as much deplored even  
though it was not popular when first released.

Len


On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:03 AM, Vince Passaro wrote:

> I read on flickr of the jet blue adventure but i'm not clear on why  
> this
> leads to your not keeping batteries in the camera? The M6 has  
> Leica's first
> TTL meter, is that right? Was it or the M5 (not counting the lovely  
> CL of
> course) the first M series with a meter?
>
> [ Totally off the point, I have yet to see anyone on the LUG cop to  
> owning
> the much deplored M5. How bad can they be? When you find them, they  
> ain't
> cheap; but nobody seems to own one either. ]
>
>
> Vince
>



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