Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Of my three M6s one is Titanium. It is very beautiful in my opinion, although I would have preferred it if the leather were of a usual texture. The titanium finish (yes, it is not solid but a finish, why I do not know) is considerably more scratch resistant than the black chrome. I think it is more unobtrusive tham the chrome, but obviously moreso than the black. All of my lenses are black. Oddly, the shutter dial works much more smoothly than that of an M6 0.85 I have, similarly but even more smoothly than my first M6 which I bought in 1985. I wondered if this were just chance, or if the Titanium model had been assembled more carefully. Is this the type of thing that Sherry can adjust when time comes for a CLA? A rep from Leica USA told me that these variations were normal, but this seems much too much to just be a normal variation. It has one other unusual thing: there is a small phillips screwhead on the shutter speed dial of the M6. On the titanium model this is black. Behind the dial is a small black plastic dot on each of my M6s. If you line up the two dots the shutter is set for 1/250. This is very useful. I have never seen the chrome camera, but would asume it is the same on it. Is it? On the black cameras the black plastic dot is almost invisible. Jesse Hellman