Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 1/16/00 9:04:32 AM Central Standard Time, jem.kime@cwcom.net writes: << Gaifana, It's easy to figure the whole Leica thing as being 'cost-impractical'. I'm sure some people choose to buy things, not because they are 'cost practical' but because they justify it to themselves in some other way. Ergonomics, sensual satisfaction, snobbery, delusion, paranoia, fear, peer pressure etc. But the reasoning, to a Leica owner, that Leitz cassettes are 'cost-impractical' doesn't hold much water for me! Jem >> But remember how much fun it is with the 15 cent throwaways to drag all your film across the felt lips during the loading process, then drag the film back across the felt lips for each exposure and then repeat during the rewind. The Leica cassettes avoided those problems. However, the last M6 that I saw would not accept the Leica cassettes made for the earlier M cameras. To use them with the current M6 cameras one would have to find an old M camera baseplate that would fit their M6.