Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh deity of my choice, prepare me for the slings of flame to come. Every year or so I get the same overpowering urge to get an M6. I guess some of us never learn. Oh evolution, where is thy sting? So I toddle off to my local purveyor of all things Leica with funds and my other Leicas in tow. I look at and handle the camera. Feels great! Unfortunately I try some sample faux shooting and the goldarn meter drives me crazy. Flashing lights, changing every time I move the camera an centimetre. I have been using a handheld meter for so long that I find LED meters to be too distracting. Personally my big hope for the "new" M body would be a LCD meter display ( much less distracting). Well, back to my story. Disappointed, again, I put the camera down and look in the used Leica case. Why there is a 21mm f3.4 with finder for two thirds the price of this used M6. And my ----- the glass is perfect! At least it was there, I bought the darn thing. The time before it was a 90 f2.8 and so on. Once a bought a used M4-2, swing out polarizing filter and table top tripod and head. I still had a enough change for a whole wack of film. So my advice would be to buy used and burn that brick (of film) for free. John Collier Mr. Rutledge wrote: > I'm new to the list and relatively new to Leica, so please forgive the > rather dumb question. > I currently own a IIIa, and want to get an M. The meter in the M6 is > compelling, but the only info I can find on the metered area is that it is > "selective". Is this somewhere between spot and centerweighted? If it is > more spot, by the time you figured what is 18% gray in the scene, wouldn't > it be just as quick to use a handheld and get a much less expensive > M2,4-2,4P,? Any feedback is welcome.