Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Lucien_vD@compuserve.com" <Lucien_vD@compuserve.com> writes ><I recently saw an M6 which had only a large "M6" and red logo dot on the ><front plate, kind of like the markings on the R cameras, not the smaller, ><stacked "Leica M6" that I think of as normal. ><What is this? Is this a new camera, an old camera, or one of the special ><editions, and is there anything different about it other than the ><markings? I didn't get a good look at it. > >This is the M6 made at the time "Leitz Wetzlar" was changed in "LEICA >CAMERA" Solms around Photokina 1988. In the M6 catalogue of that year, the >drawing of the inside of the camera was with that design. Those cameras are >not common. My M6 is one of these. I'd be very interested to know how uncommon this is. It seems to be a standard M6 in every other way, although I've always thought the pictures it takes are a bit special....;-> - -- JB